Posted on 06/06/2016 3:04:31 PM PDT by plain talk
As we reach the middle of the 21st century, half the population of the world will lose their job to a machine. The latest comes from Moshe Vardi, professor at Rice University , Houston, who delivered a talk to the American Association for the Advancement of Science , exploring the question: "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?"
Vardi reckons that half of workers across the globe will be replaced by machines within the next 30 years, wiping out middle-class jobs and "exacerbating inequality". He noted that robots would take over in many spheres of life, including automated driving and sex robots. As the Guardian reports, he also observed that this future is likely to mean humans have much more leisure time — indeed we may only work a handful of hours per week.
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well, it would be similar to the replacement of horses by machines — the only horses left to “work” would be highly specialzed
The industrial revolution DID put most people out of jobs - and the first generation of people were badly hit as they didn’t and couldn’t (in most cases) handle this change.
Your body will be enhanced by robotics.
Fewer jobs means much higher unemployment and less revenue for the government in the way of taxes. They will squeeze more and more out of those that do have jobs to provide welfare for those that don't.
The thing is that not earning your way is soul-destroying. Even a commune/monastery where you don’t get money, but still work in some way gives a purpose to life. Sitting around doing nothing destroys the soul
Even FDR knew it:
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers.
The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.
thanx about a year away and I’ll try to post links or synopsis here.
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