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You really gotta wonder how this is gonna turn out. How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete?

You really gotta wonder how this is gonna turn out. How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? I guess we'll have a huge class of people that will basically get free money through the state. But maybe that won't be so bad since wealth will be so abundant?

photophotoplasm 15y ago
> How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? So we're just assuming it will?
lionhearted 15y ago
> You really gotta wonder how this is gonna turn out. How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? Every time new automation is invented, people think is going to happen. Seriously, this goes back to pre-Industrial Revolution times. Any time part of the labor process is automated away, people think that there's going to be permanent economic damage, and they're consistently wrong. We'll adapt. There's always new things to be done. Personally, I'm betting on a greater diversity of creative and artistic work happening - people in core industries that are going to remain and grow in profitability (technology, raw materials, energy, consumer goods, construction, etc) will have more surplus income to spend on personalization, customization, different and more unique kinds of entertainment, etc. We're going to seem a massive boom in people able to make a basic living from pure creative professions enabled. There'll also be more personal services offered. Ideally a lot of ineffective governmental costs can be optimized down, and more of government spending can go to refining and cleaning up the environment too, planting more trees and flora and fauna, things like that. I think a lot of excellent jobs that don't exist today are going to be created. I also think many more people will learn basic technology skills than perhaps is commonly thought. A few hundred years ago, no one - and I mean no one - would have believed you if you told them what literacy rates would be in developed countries. They just wouldn't think it possible. So, more people will get on the tech bandwagon as time passes and kids grow up with it. Computer literacy will become like language literacy. Good things are happening man, we're living in the greatest era ever. God damn I'm so optimistic and grateful to be alive right now.
tybris 15y ago
1. People aren't dumb 2. Technology has created most of the jobs that exist today 3. Most jobs it makes obsolete were created by technology in the first place 4. Technology allows us to more with the same amount of people. 5. Human civilization hasn't even started yet. You're suggesting we're already done.
JonnieCache 15y ago
>How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? The 1820s called, they want their fallacies back. Or to be honest, the Stone Age: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tZ5NoVqeSA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tZ5NoVqeSA

photophotoplasm 15y ago

> How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? So we're just assuming it will?

lionhearted 15y ago

> You really gotta wonder how this is gonna turn out. How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? Every time new automation is invented, people think is going to happen. Seriously, this goes back to pre-Industrial Revolution times. Any time part of the labor process is automated away, people think that there's going to be permanent economic damage, and they're consistently wrong. We'll adapt. There's always new things to be done. Personally, I'm betting on a greater diversity of creative and artistic work happening - people in core industries that are going to remain and grow in profitability (technology, raw materials, energy, consumer goods, construction, etc) will have more surplus income to spend on personalization, customization, different and more unique kinds of entertainment, etc. We're going to seem a massive boom in people able to make a basic living from pure creative professions enabled. There'll also be more personal services offered. Ideally a lot of ineffective governmental costs can be optimized down, and more of government spending can go to refining and cleaning up the environment too, planting more trees and flora and fauna, things like that. I think a lot of excellent jobs that don't exist today are going to be created. I also think many more people will learn basic technology skills than perhaps is commonly thought. A few hundred years ago, no one - and I mean no one - would have believed you if you told them what literacy rates would be in developed countries. They just wouldn't think it possible. So, more people will get on the tech bandwagon as time passes and kids grow up with it. Computer literacy will become like language literacy. Good things are happening man, we're living in the greatest era ever. God damn I'm so optimistic and grateful to be alive right now.

tybris 15y ago

1. People aren't dumb 2. Technology has created most of the jobs that exist today 3. Most jobs it makes obsolete were created by technology in the first place 4. Technology allows us to more with the same amount of people. 5. Human civilization hasn't even started yet. You're suggesting we're already done.

JonnieCache 15y ago

>How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete? The 1820s called, they want their fallacies back. Or to be honest, the Stone Age: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tZ5NoVqeSA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tZ5NoVqeSA