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I like to imagine a world where people don't have to work or worry about health care. It's all done by AI and robots. People are free to pursue their hobbies an

I like to imagine a world where people don't have to work or worry about health care. It's all done by AI and robots. People are free to pursue their hobbies and other interests. How would we treat each then? Would we still be in terrible conflict with hate and prejudice prevalent?

phillipcarter 3y ago
In the US at least, the imperative should be to create policy and systems that don't make healthcare completely unavailable for millions of people in the first place. AI and robots don't mean anything without access.
- labrador 3y ago
  I'm imaging a world where everyone has health care and no one has to work. Would the world still be filled with turmoil and conflict?
  - notpachet 3y ago
    Probably.
paxys 3y ago
Go back a hundred years or so and describe advancements such as organ transplants, DNA sequencing, insulin, pacemakers, the MRI machine, mRNA and more to the common people and they would think we were all living in a post-disease utopia. In reality a very tiny percent of the world has access to any of this medical progress. Technological innovation is not enough. We also need the political will to ensure equitable distribution, otherwise it will create a yet bigger gulf between the haves and have nots.
- pixl97 3y ago
  >In reality a very tiny percent of the world has access to any of this medical progress. 20% of the world is very tiny?
bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I presume that large swaths of the population don't have hobbies and need others to tell them what to do. There is a reason why idle hands are admonished (like in a religious context: Proverbs 16:27: "Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece") > Would we still be in terrible conflict with hate and prejudice prevalent? Yes, definitely yes. We don't stop being human when we are freed from labour.

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I like to imagine a world where people don't have to work or worry about health care. It's all done by AI and robots. People are free to pursue their hobbies an

by labrador 3y ago

phillipcarter 3y ago
In the US at least, the imperative should be to create policy and systems that don't make healthcare completely unavailable for millions of people in the first place. AI and robots don't mean anything without access.
- labrador 3y ago
  I'm imaging a world where everyone has health care and no one has to work. Would the world still be filled with turmoil and conflict?
  - notpachet 3y ago
    Probably.
paxys 3y ago
Go back a hundred years or so and describe advancements such as organ transplants, DNA sequencing, insulin, pacemakers, the MRI machine, mRNA and more to the common people and they would think we were all living in a post-disease utopia. In reality a very tiny percent of the world has access to any of this medical progress. Technological innovation is not enough. We also need the political will to ensure equitable distribution, otherwise it will create a yet bigger gulf between the haves and have nots.
- pixl97 3y ago
  >In reality a very tiny percent of the world has access to any of this medical progress. 20% of the world is very tiny?
bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I presume that large swaths of the population don't have hobbies and need others to tell them what to do. There is a reason why idle hands are admonished (like in a religious context: Proverbs 16:27: "Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece") > Would we still be in terrible conflict with hate and prejudice prevalent? Yes, definitely yes. We don't stop being human when we are freed from labour.