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So, my takeaway is that if the transportation is automated, our country will have a "Few problems" with regards to unemployment, taxation, and human welfare. I
by kefka 11y ago
So, my takeaway is that if the transportation is automated, our country will have a "Few problems" with regards to unemployment, taxation, and human welfare.
If? Make that when.
So, the next question, considering all the companies entering in this landscape: How do we change our country to handle a mass forced exodus into unemployment? What do we do with 5 million unemployed?
Worse yet, what do we do when we are looking at 50% unemployable? (Not unemployed, unemployable. As in work done at free != absolute lowest cost of food/shelter) And when that number climbs, where do we go? What do we do?
- mywittyname 11y agoThe change won't happen over night, it will be gradual. Fewer people will pursue truck driving as demand dwindles, instead training for a more in-demand field. Software development is taught in elementary school now. So I suspect a lot of the next generation will pursue that.
- kefka 11y agoThat's full well and true for "transportation". The underlying issue is machine learning is making more and more jobs unemployable. Those jobs would not be economical for humans to do at any price (ie: $0). And saying that software development is going to be it is simply fallacious. It's obvious to me that most software development is also going to be eaten up by lower levels of machine learning. And also, software dev is very easy to export and 'grow' in the lowest wage countries you can find. And import is easy, unlike any physical good. And it still leaves the big question: What are we going to do with massive unemployment?