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The thesis is wrong, as certain types of work are automated, people will be forced into other kinds of work. My guess is that majority of people today will beco
by marshallp 17y ago
The thesis is wrong, as certain types of work are automated, people will be forced into other kinds of work. My guess is that majority of people today will become online content producers (bloggers and youtubers) - if the price of everything drops significantly because of robots, you can probably live off of your meager adsense earnings. (Of course, at some point blogging and youtubing could be done by computers, but then you have AI and the singularity and nothing matters anymore).
- marshallp 17y agoCan the downvoter please explain the downvote. If it's about people working as online content producers, well let me ask you - what is the most difficult task for computers to do - I would say natural language and human emotion production (which is essentially what blogging and acting are about). Hence, it's the last large occupation to be automated (there will other niches such as politicians,scientists,programmers but the majority of the population won't even try to become one of those).
- nradov 17y agoThe majority of people are incapable of producing anything that anyone would care about or watch. Adsense revenue is finite. No matter how much automation you add to the production of physical goods, natural resource constraints will prevent the price of essential goods from dropping significantly.
- marshallp 17y agodemand media for example gets unsavvy people to produce economically useful content. if 99 percent of people are poor, the price of constrained things such as real estate,food,energy will still drop to floor as the rich 1 percent can't consume a significant enough chunk of it that's also a risen for the currnet economic crisis, people assumed that even though the median wage hasn't increased for 30 years, house prices should keep going up anyway,