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> what do we do when human labor is less than the resources to keep said human alive? Sausage/glue factories for them as well? The Soylent factory for me, plea
by welanes 10y ago
> what do we do when human labor is less than the resources to keep said human alive? Sausage/glue factories for them as well?
The Soylent factory for me, please!
But to answer your question: there's going to have to be a rewrite of taxation and laws - see experiments with basic income - to cater for a world in which wealth is still being created but is being distributed less as the labour isn't required.
Whomever commands the robots of the future is probably looking at a big tax bill.
- harryh 10y agosee experiments with basic income Nah. There will always be demand for people to do things. People want all kinds of goods and services. Not all of them will be automate-able. People will do those things. And they'll get paid for it.
- chiefalchemist 10y agoDo you mean like panhandling? Or being homeless? Yeah, those pay well.
- ryandrake 10y agoNope. The people who control the robots will control government. They'll make sure that tax bill is as small as possible.