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The majority of comments seem to praise the programming/IT community or question the state of our government/economic system but I have a different question. W
by MengYuanLong 15y ago
The majority of comments seem to praise the programming/IT community or question the state of our government/economic system but I have a different question.
What future skill set should people be retooling to have? What can our economy use more of?
- pgeorgi 15y agoTaking care of children/elders/family/friends/neighbors. With everything else automated, people will still be in need for social interaction with real humans. Currently the issue is that there's no simple economic value to put on these tasks. Given their importance, I'd claim the bug lies in the economic model, not in social interactions. This all assumes that automation is put to its full potential: What will society look like when harvesting energy, food generation and processing, transportation and home building ("basic needs") were fully automated and available for more-or-less free? (home building is the odd one out in this list, as the others are for nearly instant consumtion, while most people live under the same roof for a while)