noone noone <thesteornpa...@yahoo.com> wrote: I am all for vertical agriculture, but I am totally opposed to a global > basic income. I do not support socialism or communism. >
Socialism, communism and capitalism are all based on ordinary people trading labor for money. In a few decades human labor will be worth nothing. All economic systems will be obsolete. See: http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/ > With cold fusion technology, the price of everything will go down. Even a > job at McDonalds will be capable of paying for a nice house, nice cars, etc. > Even today we have automobiles capable of driving in California traffic. That is a more difficult task than any job at McDonald's. It is just a matter of time before all jobs such as this will be done by robots. A robot the replaces a person (or the entire staff) will cost McDonald's a few thousand dollars a year. you cannot buy a nice house were nice cars with that kind of money. The most difficult job at McDonald's is human language: cashiers have to understand what the customers are ordering. Cashiers can easily be replaced today by having most customers enter the order by touchscreens, and pay with credit cards. This would be like the self checkout lines at grocery stores. In the near future, computers will understand speech well enough to take verbal orders. McDonald's has not installed touchscreen ordering devices for the same reason the US automobile industry did not install robots in the 1960s. The government and labor organizations are putting pressure on McDonald's not to automate. McDonald's is one of the biggest employers in the US. Walmart is another huge employer that could easily replace much of its staff with robots. I'm sure that it will within 20 years. Robots capable of stocking shelves are already available. At present people are cheaper for an environment such as a Walmart store, but people are not becoming twice as fast and far cheaper every few years. At places like Amazon.com, and the newest university libraries that still handle paper books, robots do the inventory work. - Jed
