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People were cheering for automation in the 60s, saying we wouldn't have to work more than 3 hours a day by the 80s, I think people should reboot their crystal b
by lm28469 4y ago
People were cheering for automation in the 60s, saying we wouldn't have to work more than 3 hours a day by the 80s, I think people should reboot their crystal balls before prophesying the end of artists
- mrguyorama 4y agoThe same thing will happen to artists that happened to the factory worker with the rise of factory automation: Most of their jobs will go away, and there will only be very few artists that can even make a cent off their work, worse than that exact problem exists today as now there won't even be a skill barrier to filter out people. The artists that currently make x$ a year off their work will lose access to that income and have to find new careers and then a giant conglomerate will buy all the companies that create digital works and their PR arm will tell us how much better off we all are that Art is cheap and automated and once again we will see individual income not increase for fifty years as GDP doubles again and wealth inequality reaches even stupider heights.
- fwsgonzo 4y agoI wish history didn't repeat like that this time. Oh well.