Pollster1:
In other words, if decent people will pay for their food, medical care, and housing, parasites will choose to stay at home. Only a liberal would think this was a positive.
Conspiracy Guy:
I’m too stunned at the lack of logic being applied and too pressed for time this morning to make a real response to the article.
Good observations, among many others among the comments on this thread.
However, I don't think AP "reporter" Calvin Woodward has any concept that his words are "illogical."
Think ahead a few years, to a future in which robots are going to be routine elements of everyday life. They'll be functioning as chambermaids in hotels and hospitals. They'll be visible behind the counter at fast-food places, and in the bakery, deli, and prepared-foods sections of every grocery store. They'll be doing road work in every town, and driving trucks and - eventually - cars.
In the more distant future (say, in 20 years or so) there will literally be no reason for anyone to do any kind of manual work at all. Robots will be in homes, doing most every chore. As robots are employed to make more robots, only the poorest will live without them to attend to their physical needs.
By that time, the concept of "work" will have changed completely. It will be seen as something optional, that people do mainly for the psychic rewards.
This AP reporter is simply getting the jump on history. As are the Democrats (and some Republicans) in Washington. Huge changes are coming, and I have no idea where they are going to take us.
In the more distant future (say, in 20 years or so) there will literally be no reason for anyone to do any kind of manual work at all. Robots will be in homes, doing most every chore. As robots are employed to make more robots, only the poorest will live without them to attend to their physical needs.
By that time, the concept of “work” will have changed completely. It will be seen as something optional, that people do mainly for the psychic rewards.
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If work is optional, on what will economies be based?
I know where we’re being led but i hate posting from my smart phone. Maybe I won’t be too tired this evening to post from my laptop.
I think you are correct, and I suspect those changes will be terrible for most of those who choose not to work and are taken care of. I imagine that drugs and other addictions will become much worse in the absence of the (now optional) psychic rewards of a productive life.