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I agree, we have moved from farming (subsistence) to manufacturing (subsistence and consumption) to services (pure consumption). What is there to move to next?
by snarf21 10y ago
I agree, we have moved from farming (subsistence) to manufacturing (subsistence and consumption) to services (pure consumption). What is there to move to next? Everyone says we will create new jobs but the question is doing what? We all can't either program the robots or serve at Starbucks. (and can't that be automated away too?)
Where will the 3M jobs that automated trucking will remove come from? I don't think it is all doom and gloom but it begs the question of what fuels the consumption. If employment is super low, then we need money from somewhere to continue to live, so is that universal basic income? Or will things be so automated that everything will effectively be free?
Very interesting time to be alive and wonder what might be yet to come.