On 30/11/2007 12:43 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Once robots are perfected enough to do ordinary household and business manual labor, I cannot imagine there will be any work for most people to do. At least, not as we define work today. It would be like to trying add columns of numbers in competition with a computer. The whole basis of our present economy is the exchange of labor for goods and services, but human labor will be worth nothing. Either we will let people starve, or we will change the basis of our economy. Since we are clever enough to invent computers and robots, I am confident that we will be clever enough to invent an economic system that allows us to benefit from them. - Jed e.g. people will be paid to go to school and to exercise. Harry
