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As a society, fund jobs where humans are still best. Caretaking of elderly, daycare, more teachers for more hands-on learning. Unless robots are full on conscio

As a society, fund jobs where humans are still best. Caretaking of elderly, daycare, more teachers for more hands-on learning. Unless robots are full on conscious beings, people will always need that human connection for their own proper development and well-being. Case in point, Norway has a ton of oil money and they could almost live off it as a country. But instead they save as much as they can and invest the rest in a strong social state that takes good care of the young, elderly, poor, disabled.

gremlinsinc 10y ago
There's only so many people that can fill those types of jobs..I'm a developer though --so an introvert - I'm never going to want to take care of elderly for sure.. I could def. see myself teaching because - I do like to do that, but I'd probably teach coding, and when there are no coding jobs - when all teaching is about taking care of elderly or becoming a teacher... or a massage therapist - I'll be out of a job there as well. There's 9 billion people on the earth and if we try and divy up all jobs that require a human touch -- we'd still have about 8.4 billion people left unemployed. Full on conscience robots aren't impossible either - further out for sure (2050-2060 by most estimates) - but w/ AI's help in researching/coding next gen AI that timetable could move up exponentially.