This Luddite response seems to suggest the author hasn’t researched the topic.
Marx foresaw some of this, but drew screwy dystopian conclusions.
Sure, if machines throw people out of work, and work can’t be found for the displaced, there will be social instability. But in the Marxian dystopia, the “workers” will fix this by jointly “owning” the machines, i.e., the means of production. Who will maintain these machines? Who will direct activity? You get back to an industrial/political royalty, which is why many of today’d dictators like some of the ideas of Communism.
Rally the malcontents, take over the wealth. Like Venezuela, ultimately.
Problem is that there are already plenty of millennials who thing socialism is a pretty good thing. Couple that with the robot/AI revolution replacing jobs (and not just mundane, low level jobs either), and it will be hard to convince them otherwise.
Not unrelated, but this is yet another reason I think we should go back to the days when the only people who could vote was the landowners.
Bernie Sanders did a little too well last time around.
The whole idea only works with unlimited resources which humans do not have access nor the ability to make literally anything on demand for free ... yet
I hadn't heard the term until about a month ago when I attended a day long professional continuing educational seminar.
One of the hour long presentations was on emotional intelligence which started with a test to rate ourselves. I scored very high when the emotional intelligence involved young children and very low when it involved mid teens to adults.
The instructor wasn't really happy when I described it as "the ability to dwell in nambly pambly land." But that seemed what it was like to me.
While, I can be very sympathetic/emphatic to young children (maybe because I am a grandfather), by the time you grow up, I tend to think society would be better off teaching courses in how not to get your feelings hurt so easily rather than making the rest of society walk on eggshells around you. Call it "insensitivity training" if you like.
I suppose that makes me some sort of an anachronism or a throwback. Has anyone else run into this?
Yeah, I think real emotional intelligence is the ability to train your emotions so you don't fall apart when somebody doesn't give you what you want either by retreating to a safe space to cry or, worse, wanting to shoot up a school or other soft target.
I think it will lead to Wall-E-ism.
Luddite.
It could also lead to massive increases in production AND lives of leisure for everyone.
To paraphrase Sterling Archer: “Will [they] not rest until we’ve all been enslaved by Skynet?”
Very stupid idea. He must be wishing for communism, and tried hard to find something that would justify it.
I have real deep seated problems with offshoring. I have zero problems with modern automated factories INSIDE THE USA!
Japan has more robots than anywhere in the world and they are nowhere close to becoming communist. What the problem is outside of Japan is the old families don’t know how to keep vast amounts of people poor in order stay in power while robots are doing all the work. The establishment would rather kill regular people than lose power.
Higher emotional intelligence but lower average salary.
The robots will kill all of the displaced workers and create a mechanized utopian world for themselves with those of us remaining as their slaves. “Would you like oil with that, master?”
I just visited Florida 2 weeks ago. 21 million people and almost no factories. Automation has nothing to do with the economy in Florida or any place like it.
Is he nuts?
Or that we'll chose to live like people in Venezuela who eat rats for breakfast?
What an effing fool... This isn't ‘the old days’ when people in first world countries thought it ‘might work’... It's NOW - when all of us can see with our own eyes that Communism brings misery, death, and poverty. Only 3rd world fools, illiterates and American College students are dumb enough to buy into Communism.(Oh, and deep state thugs within the Obama leftovers)