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And I predict the posters on that wall will be replaced for every generation. The simple logical flaw with the notion that robots will render human beings usel
by m52go 9y ago
And I predict the posters on that wall will be replaced for every generation.
The simple logical flaw with the notion that robots will render human beings useless: okay, then who makes the robots better?
Who designs them? Who helps them? Who repairs them? Etc. There's going to be a whole economy around these things that many people in this thread seem to be oblivious about.
- gnaritas 9y agoNo one is oblivious, you simply fail to understand the nature of automation. Yes, humans will be making those robots better, but it'll only be a handful of humans, not the millions displaced by the robots. Everyone displaced by a robot in a blue collar job isn't going to suddenly turn into millions of millions of jobs designing and repairing robots. Repair won't even be a thing, they'll simply be replaced by new robots that were built by other robots. Automation replaces millions of people with robots and a few thousand people. The new jobs created are higher and higher skilled jobs always in lower and lower numbers never enough to cover the jobs displaced by the automation. If automation created as many jobs as it destroyed, it wouldn't be improving efficiency and no one would be doing it. It is precisely because it destroys jobs cumulatively that people automate because that's called efficiency and it creates wealthy for the robot owners by funneling the money that would have went to human salaries to those owners.