The future will be a 80% of the population will have zero marginal value in a robot/AI economy. They will spend their days in Virtual Reality play getting a welfare check from the gov’t every month.
It’s true. The oculus headsets that are in development are phenomenal. It will be like the movie Wall-E
The future looks bright for whomever builds the best combination living room recliner/toilet.
“The future will be a 80% of the population will have zero marginal value in a robot/AI economy. They will spend their days in Virtual Reality play getting a welfare check from the gov’t every month.”
The future will look like Detroit in the first “RoboCop” movie before the RoboCop was invented.
And to get the check, they will have to submit to sterilization, so that, after a few generations, only the humans that produce value will be around.
Think of it as evolution in action.
There is a TV series called "Black Mirror"... It is sorta like a British version of the Twilight Zone set in the near future and deals with issues that are coming about due to the fallout of the digital revolution. One story had a class of people who supported themselves by riding exercise bikes that generated power and was hooked into the power grid and they got paid for their work. An interesting prospect.
Not sure of the viability but it was interesting that they literally spent their work day riding an exercise bike and watching their screens and they had to pay for certain popular programs others were free. AND TO NOT WATCH commercials that interrupted the program and your screen feed you had to pay credits to do so.