Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote: What a gang of pessimists! >
My views are not pessimistic. I think that a future in which robots do all the work and people do whatever they please would be good, not bad. However, we need to adjust the economic system to allow for this. > Yes, there will be well paid jobs in the future. > Why? How could there be? Do you think anyone would pay a person thousands of dollars to do a job that a machine can do for a few dollars? This would be like paying people to add up numbers on a sheet of paper when a $500 computer can add a billion numbers per second. > However, that is not the immediate problem. > This is a problem right now, and it will grow far worse in the near future. > We need to spread the resources so everybody is given a fair chance to a > life with no lack of the essentials. > Yes. We need to de-couple these resources from human labor (jobs) because labor is rapidly becoming worthless. There is no point to having people work when machines can do the job better, faster, and cheaper. There is no benefit to anyone having people compete with computers. This is real life, not the ballad of John Henry. Are you going to have people waste their lives doing pretend make-work that everyone knows a $500 robot can do for free? That will not give anyone a sense of fulfillment, or a purpose in life. You would only be telling people they are worth less than a plastic box. - Jed
