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Higher standards of living. Less starvation, better environment, etc...
by 2019ideas 8y ago
Higher standards of living. Less starvation, better environment, etc...
- pixl97 8y agoOnly if there is a taxation function that takes money from the top and distributes it, which gets derided as full on communism on HN. One of the big issues with automation is it tends to concentrate wealth with a few big players
- lm28469 8y agoThat's an honourable goal but automation was supposed to deliver* us in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s etc .... It never happened and will never happen with the current world economy. These things are mutually exclusive. https://hbr.org/2016/02/todays-automation-anxiety-was-alive-and-well-in-1960 https://hbr.org/2016/02/todays-automation-anxiety-was-alive-... https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v7n3/hong.html https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v7n3/hong.html https://timeline.com/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all-the-jobs-for-more-than-200-years-5c9c08a2f41d https://timeline.com/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all-the-... * or destroy, depending on who you listen to