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if there really is a humanoid-robot-powered labor transition in the next decade or two, your comment will take on strange new prescience
by jes5199 2y ago
if there really is a humanoid-robot-powered labor transition in the next decade or two, your comment will take on strange new prescience
- moffkalast 2y agoYea I have two things on my 50 years bingo chart: supporting unemployable people through UBI/bullshit jobs by reallocating the profits from automated production, or getting rid of them through wars, famine, etc. until only the capital owners remain. Still waiting on which one it'll be. Probably both to some extent.
- jes5199 2y agothe only idea I have on how to improve the outcome here is normalizing things like Gofundme and Patreon and just in general transferring wealth from people who hit the automation jackpot to people who don't. But things are going to get weird and it's hard to predict the social consequences. Maybe robots get so cheap that there's no reason the have-nots don't have them, too (like today with smartphones and cars) and then there's no famine because food production is so easy with automation (???)