Posted on 05/05/2015 9:40:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Author says: “Those technologies had one thing in common : they were price deflationary.”
No they needed people to run them. Robots do not.
In a free market the replacing of labor by mechanization frees up labor for new industries and prosperity increases. In a severely hampered by government economy those displaced workers will be given welfare and endless programs are will be encouraged to remain idle. The economy will suffer as more and more mechanization is required to pay for all the new welfare benefits.
Its called productivity.
You can’t raise overall incomes or standards of living in an economy without it.
Of course, in our present Central Banking era - increases in productivity are erased by money printing, government debt, and funding wealth-destroying social-engineering schemes. Even with all the productivity and technological increases of the last 40 years, average worker incomes have declined - stolen by government, inflation and crony-capitalists who have first dibs on printed money and government largess.
In a free market the replacing of labor by mechanization frees up labor for new industries and prosperity increases. In a severely hampered by government economy those displaced workers will be given welfare and endless programs are will be encouraged to remain idle. The economy will suffer as more and more mechanization is required to pay for all the new welfare benefits.
Many advances COULD lead to a better world. But, as more and more people need to be supported by social welfare, more and more “stuff” is redistributed.
People who support redistribution of wealth think this is all fine. I happen to think that personal productivity has crucial value. I hope to ontinue to make a contributon.
But I worry that “new opportunities” don’t appear by magic and there is no guarantee that human labor will be needed.
Genesis 3:19 — We are meant to work for what we have.
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Wallace Whipple, 1964 Twilight Zone episode, explains why automation is such a good idea—mainly the elimination of human beings, whose inefficiencies and costs are bad for profits. Thus they are fired and replaced by computer-controlled machines.
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So... time to call for the Butlerian Jihad?
Cue Kraftwerk...
Followed by the rise of the Kwisatz Haderach.
Kraftwerk - Die Roboter
Wir laden unsere Batterie
Jetzt sind wir voller Energie
Wir sind die Roboter
Wir funktionieren automatik
Jetzt wollen wir tanzen mechanik
Wir sind die Roboter
Ja tvoi sluga (=I’m your slave)
Ja tvoi Rabotnik robotnik (=I’m your worker)
Wir sind auf Alles programmiert
Und was du willst wird ausgefahrt
Wir sind die Roboter
Wir funktionieren automatik
Jetzt wollen wir tanzen mechanik
Wir sind die Roboter
Ja tvoi sluga (=I’m your slave)
Ja tvoi Rabotnik robotnik (=I’m your worker)
Wir sind die Roboter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHaZ3UL2oHk
Robots, is that the new P.C. term for immigrants in Deutschland?
More human labor might be needed but is and will be discouraged by the redistribution and regulation state.
Wishful thinking on academic irreplaceability.
You people don’t need jobs you have corporation run government that will give you your shelter and soup.
When the bots become selfreplicating we all will become dead weight. ;^)
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