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There's a basic, and I think unfounded, assumption we'll find new jobs for people. Look at horses: thousands of years of utility, now essentially decorations a
by SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
There's a basic, and I think unfounded, assumption we'll find new jobs for people.
Look at horses: thousands of years of utility, now essentially decorations and luxury items. Their population virtually gone in 100 years.
No one has explained to me why that won't happen to humans except "it hasn't happened yet" and "humans aren't horses (duh!)", neither of which really addresses the issue.
- shenanigoat 10y agoCapitalism is supposed to serve humanity, not the other way around. When this stops happening, if we don't have an alternative system...well, I shudder to think.
- DesiLurker 10y agowho said that? seriously, the goal of capitalism is to maximize capital however it may be defined! once serious automation takes holds not all meat popsicles will be of worth equally.. even today humans in US are worth a lot more than say iraq. this will only get worse as haves can have entire production capacity without giving 'handouts' to the poor burger flipper just made obsolete by robot. IMO the time for UBI or such schemes is before serious automation hits so we can scale it up NOT after as it'll be too late then. It rarely happens that people give up power & influence voluntarily.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI'm not sure the population of horses has declined all that much in the last 100 years. They've gone from tools to pets, but there's still a lot of them...
- SomeStupidPoint 10y agoHorse population in the US is half of what it was in 1920, while US population is three times what it was. So per capita, there's 1/6th the horses of 100 years ago.