Posted on 03/03/2016 8:45:07 AM PST by C19fan
Let’s say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply automation will affect future employment.
But for the sake of argument, imagine that within two or three decades we’ll have morphed into the Robotic States of America.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
And you can kiss fiscal sanity goodbye
Not necessarily. All that robotic labor could drive the cost of goods down to a level that is insanely cheap.
Elect Trump and he will protect good paying American jobs from robots by placing a 45% tariff on robots.
Yeah..... If you had a job paying decent middle class wages to pay for insanely cheap goods and services.
I have a better plan. Teach Robot Design starting in Kindergarten.
Time to learn how to build and repair robots.
I know if you are a mechanic who can work on electric and hybrid vehicles you can have multiple job offers around here.
[ In a 80/20 future society, 20% of the population will be employable the rest offer zero value to an employee, you are going to need a massive welfare state. ]
Sounds like the a perfect environment for islamic cancer to breed and expand into...
Imagine hordes of veiled women crapping out future jihadis and breeder reactors....
All on “Society’s Dime”, like europe only worse...
We would likely still have most of our people on some sort of welfare, but it would not be such a fiscal train wreck as their basic living costs would drop substantially. Sort of like an energy breakthrough that would make electricity so cheap no one would bother to meter it.
Just playing Isaac Asimov there, not trying to provoke a political backlash.
The fear of automation is been plaguing us since Classical Greece. I don’t care how many Robots we have there always be a need for humans to do things for other humans - end of story. Who knows, with more people freed up from working with their hands and using their minds who knows how fast and far science will advance?
Bring on the robots, just not the sex ones because that’s just, well-creepy.
Many years ago I came across an article in an AI journal that discussed this same question. It said that in the future, instead of working, people would make money by owning robots. But it seems likely that only a small minority of people will be involved in owning robots.
That’ll work for a while, but eventually robotics will be able to perform that function without human involvement.
Before the civil war, almost 70% of the workforce were farmers. We survived. We prospered through automation.
When everything necessary for life is produced by automatic labor, you really have no other choice but to institute a welfare state and limit the population (until you can expand to other planets).
I forsee people having their biometrics registered (better than chip implants) to get welfare/housing/etc and being placed on mandatory birth control until being allowed to reproduce.
In theory, you can give all people a free standard of living like the richest 1% today. However, the super rich will definitely get greedy and corral the common people into the most minimal ghettos while they build endless estates.
IMO, artificial intelligence will be the death of freedom for most of the population. It should be banned globally but there is no chance to stop other nations from developing it and threatening those who don’t. Much like nuclear weapons...
You do realize there is AI all around you even as you post?
You don’t get a dime from MY robot!
Will the HillaryBot get a paycheck?
Just download the 3D file for the new Robot model, and print it out.
Trumpsters, Damn...no escape.
And when the robots have become self-aware, they may decide humans are no longer useful to them so no need to keep us around.
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