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Who's going to build and service the robots? Who's going to build the chips necessary to build the robots? Who's going to operate the ships required to move the

Who's going to build and service the robots? Who's going to build the chips necessary to build the robots? Who's going to operate the ships required to move the parts to the destination to be assembled? Who's going to build the ships? Who's going to to secure the shipping lanes? Who's going to grow and process the food? We don't have the parts that we need now to build new cars and tractors. Can we really afford to be building robots?

juve1996 4y ago
Who's been doing all of that the last 50 years? Poor people in other countries, just like it is now.
rysertio 4y ago
How many people would you need, in order to build robots? Not many, and most of it'll be automated anyways. And remember the birth rate is not 0.0 it's 0.8. So I think fewer people will be there because we don't need more people. Society will change to accommodate to low birth rates.
tristan957 4y ago
There is a lot of semiconductor investment going on right now. My employer is pledging $300B of investment in the next decade, with $40B here in the US. I would expect other companies are doing the same, especially as the EU and the US look to bolster semiconductor manufacturing through subsidization.
gumby 4y ago
Well, there will be some jobs in robot service, but most of that work should be done by...robots. Self-driving ships don't need humans. Robots should be doing most of the ship building. Growing and processing food should be highly automated, and soon. If we have "infinite" (renewable) energy we can cut down on the chemical input and have robots plucking each weed and carefully metering out the water. The price of "organic" should drop close to or even below "conventional". > We don't have the parts that we need now to build new cars and tractors. Can we really afford to be building robots? half a billion people have food insecurity, and with climate change that is growing. Can we really afford to build more meat puppets? More to the point, the article talked about the population of SK dropping by a half by the end of the century. A transient parts problem today is irrelevant, especially given we have to design better robots over the next 78 years.
- tuatoru 4y ago
  The working age population is a more pressing problem[1]. I don't share your blithe optimism that we can automate the millions of tasks that humans do so quickly and easily. 1. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/20-69/410 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/20-69...

juve1996 4y ago

Who's been doing all of that the last 50 years? Poor people in other countries, just like it is now.

rysertio 4y ago

How many people would you need, in order to build robots? Not many, and most of it'll be automated anyways. And remember the birth rate is not 0.0 it's 0.8. So I think fewer people will be there because we don't need more people. Society will change to accommodate to low birth rates.

tristan957 4y ago

There is a lot of semiconductor investment going on right now. My employer is pledging $300B of investment in the next decade, with $40B here in the US. I would expect other companies are doing the same, especially as the EU and the US look to bolster semiconductor manufacturing through subsidization.

gumby 4y ago

Well, there will be some jobs in robot service, but most of that work should be done by...robots. Self-driving ships don't need humans. Robots should be doing most of the ship building. Growing and processing food should be highly automated, and soon. If we have "infinite" (renewable) energy we can cut down on the chemical input and have robots plucking each weed and carefully metering out the water. The price of "organic" should drop close to or even below "conventional". > We don't have the parts that we need now to build new cars and tractors. Can we really afford to be building robots? half a billion people have food insecurity, and with climate change that is growing. Can we really afford to build more meat puppets? More to the point, the article talked about the population of SK dropping by a half by the end of the century. A transient parts problem today is irrelevant, especially given we have to design better robots over the next 78 years.

tuatoru 4y ago
The working age population is a more pressing problem[1]. I don't share your blithe optimism that we can automate the millions of tasks that humans do so quickly and easily. 1. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/20-69/410 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/20-69...