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You are talking about nirvana, where robots are so cheap anyone can own them. The cost of food and shelter would decline to nearly zero in such a world.
by valuearb 10y ago
You are talking about nirvana, where robots are so cheap anyone can own them. The cost of food and shelter would decline to nearly zero in such a world.
- maxerickson 10y agoWe are culturally unprepared to live in it.
- Houshalter 10y agoNot really. Food is already highly mechanized, but it's far from free. It still requires land and capital to produce it. The cost of housing hasn't been correlated with the cost of construction for a long time. Look at how houses keep getting more and more expensive, especially in cities. Even though we have tons more construction technology then we did 150 years ago. But food and shelter aren't the only costs. Healthcare keeps getting more and more expensive, and that can't be automated. If for no other reason than liability concerns. Any industry that can't' be automated will become disproportionately more expensive relative to everything else.
- valuearb 10y agoIf anything can be automated it's healthcare. Houses don't get more expensive, not in proportion to wages. And the costs of urban housing is land costs, which are dictated by government policies driven by NIMBYS. Cheap robots can build cheap apartments a thousand feet high to save on land costs, or cheap houses on cheap desert land. The coming robot apocalypse is actual nirvana.