UAW, AFSCME, AFL-CIO et al will demand unionization.
Augustine wrote about this in City of God. Not about robots. It was about people not having anything to do, not enemy to worry about, they would start fighting each other.
I'm not sure about (4) and (5), but (1), (2) and (3) are completely inevitable.
This thread may soon be shut down as a duplicate. The first thread was filled with post full of mockery at the very notion or at the left (good on that latter, but it ignores the issue) with little engagement from FReepers on how serious this question is or will soon become.
Solar and wind power are good, though.
What Happens to Society When Robots Replace Workers?
They will still be voting democrat.
Vonnegut covered that in Player Piano.
When robots further replace workers, it will be the same effing mess that it is now. Have you tried calling any company or government agency? Do you get to talk to a real human being? Or do you simply talk to a recording and then to some numbskull who reads a script to you? “Yes, yes, so very sorry for the inconvenience, we will do everything we can to further assist you” Who talks like that? A robot.
There is no future aspect though.
Xerox machines replaced millions of copy typists when I was a kid. Automated self shutoff pumps replaced gas station attendants.
I am pretty sure that 80 percent of the jobs people work now are different from jobs people worked in the sixties.
Mike Rowe begs to differ.
I would like to see us go to 30 hour work weeks
3 10-hour days
I would dig ditches for a living if I could have 4 days off each week
My house would probably be clean and I would be able to work on remodeling and side jobs trying to start a business...
It used to be that almost everyone was involved in food production. Now, almost no one is involved in food production.
The question could have been asked a hundred years ago.
The only thing to really do is let nature run its course. If a significant part of people are not genetically capable (intelligence) of living in an advanced technological society, then they should have their own society in which they are comfortable and productive. If they are subsized by a society to which they can never belong it will only lead to strife and violence.
Butlerian Jihad. Seriously.
In the Year 2525 from 1969
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a thing to chew
Nobody’s gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin’ limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin’ to do
Some machine’s doin’ that for you
In the year 6565
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God’s a-coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He’ll look around Himself and say
“Guess it’s time for the Judgement Day”
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He’ll either say, “I’m pleased where man has been”
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I’m kinda wonderin’ if man is gonna be alive
He’s taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain’t put back nothing
Now it’s been ten thousand years, man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it’s only yesterday
Songwriters
Evans, Richard Lee
It's the service people that are being shoved to the wayside.
I pump my own gas, go to the ATM, pay my taxes and utilities on line. Millions and millions of service jobs are no more.
translation: Guess we need to start talking about that Guaranteed Minimum Income proposal NOW.
Maybe we’ll have smarter bosses.