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There's a weird dystopianness about having a machine that can write songs and poetry years or maybe decades before having one that can clean a toilet. It doesn
by pydry 3y ago
There's a weird dystopianness about having a machine that can write songs and poetry years or maybe decades before having one that can clean a toilet.
It doesnt help that the automated future imagined in the past would "free up" people so that they could spend all of their time writing songs and poetry.
- jonnycomputer 3y agoTurns out millions of years of evolution make us really efficient manual laborers. We use so little energy to do all that we do, it's pretty amazing. But yes; I remember Ruby and the Galactic Gumshoe, the Andorrians were a race of artists who insisted that automation-induced unemployment was not a disease, it was the cure. When I think of the most secure jobs of the future, these days I think, toilet plumber and janitor.
- pydry 3y agoI dont think aggregate job security ever really had anything to do with automation - only wealth distribution. There is always 1000 things you can do for other people. The question is just do those other people have the money to pay for it after rent and bills. Increasingly they do not.
- alpaca128 3y agoSelf-cleaning public toilets have been a thing for years.