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The way out of this in america, and throughout the world, will be companies like heartland robotics ($5000 robot arm), cheap 3d printers, and hydro/aeropoinic m
by marshallp 15y ago
The way out of this in america, and throughout the world, will be companies like heartland robotics ($5000 robot arm), cheap 3d printers, and hydro/aeropoinic mini-farms inside homes, and the computer vision software to tie it all together. We're headed for a post-scarcity society.
- zanny 15y agoThe problem with this paradigm is that we would still have our centuries old near 100% employment model, where society works by having almost everyone working. In the world we are rapidly approaching, we won't need unskilled labor anymore and that renders a huge class of unemployed people who are not interested in pursuing higher education without income.
- marshallp 15y agowhich is the point exactly, most people won't need to work, they will have the means of production inside their homes.
- neutronicus 15y agoKeep dreaming. Raw materials are scarce, so everything else will be do. The "way out of this in America" is that we all become slightly poorer, the Chinese all get a lot richer, and manufacturing starts coming back to the US.
- marshallp 15y agoHow is that a dream? Post-scarcity has already hit the digital world, the material world isn't far off - the only limitation currently is in computer vision software. The real problem isn't china, it's automation. The only solution other than increased welfare (which the current political system won't allow), is to make everyone self-sufficient through robots in the home. Materials aren't scarce, if they were, the centralized production system would feel it too.