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You have to appreciate that we have some of the top minds of the world working on revolutionary technology with the ultimate aim of making a huge group of our p
by boublepop 6y ago
You have to appreciate that we have some of the top minds of the world working on revolutionary technology with the ultimate aim of making a huge group of our population unemployed so the richest man in the world richer. And naturally this receives government funding.
I know this is of cause done because it’s an easy target for robotics, and proves a value stream. But you still have to wonder just how big of a societal change we could achieve if these efforts where target at empowering and improving the lives of the masses instead of removing the “annoyance” of having to pay minimum wage workers as part of the costs of huge insanely profitable corporations.
- iams 6y agoAre you a subsistance farmer? If not then your job exists because of automation. Every single product that exists exists because we have automated away something is the past. Every book, tv show, pop song has been produced by people who in previous generations would have had to spend their days hunting and gathering. Automation frees up people to innovate. What's sad is that we still have people who spend their whole lives doing jobs that could easily be done by robots.