[blam]

(I'm fascinated by the above article)

I've heard Elon Musk recently saying similar things.

Elon has 14 children and he's recommending that they don't go to college.

He said, His kids that are in college now are wasting their time.

BTW, Elon has recently announced that he's building a TERAFAB chip making plant in Austin, Texas that will eventually cost five trillion dollars to complete and output 100-200 billion chips a year.(That's more than all the chips made by everyone in the world today.) The chip geometries will be on the order of 10-20 ANGSTROMS.

BTW' I just paid someone $450.00 to rake my leaves for less than 8 hours. (where's my robot?) No-one else would do it...at any price.

[Stosh]

Big deal - I didn’t need a job until I was 9 years old (paper route)

[P-Marlowe]

They are going to need jobs. There just won’t be any jobs available. No jobs equals no food and no house. Everyone will be homeless and begging on the street.

[nickcarraway]

I hope 5 year olds don’t need to work for a few years.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bfl

[JZelle]

The future looks so bright I’m going to need some shades.

[Leaning Right]

> “The need to work will go away,” he said. “People will still work on the things they want to work on, not because they need to work.” <

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. We see that very clearly in the inner cities today. I’d sure hate to see it everywhere.

[lee martell]

Are you a Land Barron? How many acres to you control to require $450.00 for leaf removal in the middle of Spring, when most leaves are still buds? Good for you, if you are.
I’m just asking. Whoever mows your lawn, probably needs one of those sit down vehicles with a steering wheel.
Ray Ban sunglasses too.

[T. Rustin Noone]

Someone better speed up development of the Star Trek Replicator pronto....

If you won’t need to create income, there had better be a way to satisfy
our worldly needs for free.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"...creating an era of extreme abundance and lower prices."

Khosla and Musk are kidding themselves when they overlook basic human nature. I remember 30 years ago when the "Information Superhighway" was going to bring us all the world's great works, best symphonies, art, and transform humankind. Human nature, Social Media and ubiquitous cameras taking movies made sure that wouldn't happen. Instead we get rampant crime, performative terrorists blowing whistles 24x7, street takeovers, dumb "challenges" that kill kids, entitled brats who don't want to work, mass assassination attempts and ascendant socialism and communism.

Idle hands will lead to a lot of destruction. It's as old as humans...

St. Jerome, in Letter 125 (Epistle 125), wrote: "Fac et aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum." ("Do something, so that the Devil may always find you busy.")

Chaucer wrote in Melibeus (circa 1405): "Dooth somme goode dedes, that the deuel, which is oure enemy, ne fynde yow nat vnocupied" ("Do some good deeds, so that the Devil, which is our enemy, won't find you unoccupied.")

[stanne]

Is this communist creep saying this like it’s a good thing? Because in our world, in the Judeo Christian world he is likely unfamiliar with, work is a blessing. We celebrated the feast day of St Joseph the worker on May 1.

In Saudi, I met an ex pat. She was a banker there with her husband. She said the Saudis don’t work really. They had to import all their help in. Maybe this guy wants us to be a wealthy Muslim nation

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Sounds great. If 5 year olds will not need a job, then there is no reason for them to go to school. If no kids go to school, then there is no reason to build schoolhouses, hire teachers, and have teacher unions.

Isn’t AI great.

[fruser1]

COVID plan coming to fruition?

[blitz128]

If true imagine an entire world of worthless creatures

[escapefromboston]

Does this fellow have a vested interest in making money off Ai ?

[dfwgator]

They’ll all be soldiers in the next World War.

[Axenolith]

This guys an idiot. Why live then? AI is going to make the dot com boom look like Romper Room in the financial sense...

And apparently all about 90% of its effort/development is solely to produce idiocracy humans and manage them for sales and “security”.

How big is your freakin’ yard blam? I’d do it for leas than that as long as it isn’t golf course sized 🤣

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I wasn’t even looking for a job when I was five, but I started my first job outside the home, picking berries, in 1962 when I was seven. My friends and I would walk about half a mile to catch the bus at 5:00 and we’d get home around 2:00. It was great getting out of the house, plus I could generally make about 12 silver quarters a day, which would be worth about $168 today. (Ignoring the change from silver coinage, that $3.00 would be equivalent to about $30 today from inflation only, still not bad money to a seven-year-old.)

[Mr. Jeeves]

"People will still work on the things they want to work on, not because they need to work."

History teaches that most will sit around smoking pot and accomplishing nothing.

[Justa]

Why would a billionaire need an employee?

The point of AI isn’t to improve labor. It’s to eliminate ppl.

[AZJeep]

They were predicting this for a long time.
Basically Marxism was build on that assumption.
But, no way!
I am sure, people will find a way to make money and keep themselves busy.