Well, that was kind of the objective from the start
And I trust plenty of democrat taliban voters lose their jobs.
“Past experience is that they create more jobs, even if disruptive.” Yeah, past. It does not mean that will still be the case, as AI becomes more capable. There comes a tipping point where AI could become so capable that it turns a 1,000 man warehouse into a three man operation and 997 people are simply superfluous.
Thank $15 an hour!
A big percentage of the population is just going to be unemployable. And it’s not just burger flippers. A lot of legal work (”respectable white-collar stuff”) can be done by machines now. This is going to be a real problem.
Sure, you might be able to send a check to people who just sit at home but the people who do work will be angry, and the people sitting at home will be bored. Trouble comes from both bored people and angry people.
“These fifty-foot women, they’re slapping your face. Machines remind you that you can be replaced! Your incredible, the incredible shrinking man!”
~ Daniel Amos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lclyl_Pozjk
The company I am at has been outsourcing for several years now for various depts. I received an email this past week that said that in Poland they were going to be helping with Latin support as soon as they had enough Spanish speakers.....
You will be served by Boston Dynamic robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK9lkez32E
And one day you will serve the robots.
Fast food restaurants will be completely automated in 4 years. Except for a manager and a cleaner we don’t need people. The work and process is so standardized already
People are in for a big surprise.
Universal basic income is here, if not now, then withing a year. But it won’t be in the form of currency. It will be goods and services prescribed by a planned redistribution system run by the government. You’ll get a weeks worth of supplemental food delivered to your home, with no receipt. You’ll go to the clinic and never see the bill. The government will own your home, through Blackrock and Vangaurd, and the actual value of the distributions will be based on aggregated values and payments.
People will long for the day they are just batteries plugged in to the Matrix.
This is happening now, to the lowest classes. It will very soon be happening to what was the middle class. Even doctors and lawyers will be sucked in to the machine.
Automation may not be required now days so many have been trained to act like robots.