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To: marktwain
At some point, automated systems will outperform humans at a great many, if not most, tasks. This should free up human resources to do high level things for high pay.

And what about those humans who are not capable of doing high level things for high pay?

What we may find ourselves encountering, is an increasing percentage of the human population not being able to do anything that would pay enough to feed them.

14 posted on 02/03/2019 6:17:57 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625

GMTA


16 posted on 02/03/2019 6:18:33 PM PST by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Your question is being asked by many that see millions of jobs automated away over the next decade or so. One thought is to tax the robots/machines and use that money to provide a basic income to displaced workers.


21 posted on 02/03/2019 6:50:32 PM PST by Bitman
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To: PapaBear3625

We will still need Plumbers, Heating/Air, auto mechanics, and those AI systems will need a IT repair person.

Unless a EMP brings the whole thing grinding to a halt.


29 posted on 02/04/2019 7:56:28 AM PST by GailA (GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: PapaBear3625; marktwain
At some point, automated systems will outperform humans at a great many, if not most, tasks. This should free up human resources to do high level things for high pay. - marktwain
And what about those humans who are not capable of doing high level things for high pay?

What we may find ourselves encountering, is an increasing percentage of the human population not being able to do anything that would pay enough to feed them.

Logically, if AI computers do all the work superbly and extremely efficiently, the cost of human needs plummets. Computers become Shmoos.

30 posted on 02/04/2019 1:40:00 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naiveté towards government.)
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