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> Wasn't that the dream? That robots do all our work and we just chill, enjoy a life of leisure and fulfilling activity? Unfortunately, I don't see that ever h
by Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
> Wasn't that the dream? That robots do all our work and we just chill, enjoy a life of leisure and fulfilling activity?
Unfortunately, I don't see that ever happening.
As jobs get lost to automation, unemployment will increase, and eventually our economy will collapse.
Even if your McDonalds is automated, they're still going to charge you $15 for that meal. In the fast food world, labor is typically ~20% of the cost, so even if they reduce prices because labor is no longer a factor (they won't, after all, because they already know you'll pay $15 for your meal), it'd only reduce the price to $12.
- w0m 3y ago> Unfortunately, I don't see that ever happening. I mean, it's already happened over and over again throughout human history. Hell, in the US ~100 years ago, 90%+ of the population was farming. 'Automation took our jobs!' and now ~1% are farming. Work doesn't go away; it just shifts. Unemployment/collapse is a pipe dreams, the human components will simply move when large market shifts come in. Yea, they're disruptive - what will an older career truck driver move to once no one is driving? But the next generation coming up will find new niches that are still needed or desired.