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> but we've just gone and replaced their jobs without having solved scarcity But surely automation, by robots or otherwise, is part of the solution to scarcity
by Osmium 14y ago
> but we've just gone and replaced their jobs without having solved scarcity
But surely automation, by robots or otherwise, is part of the solution to scarcity? By your definition, you couldn't have a post-scarcity society without them, for who would do the farming and the like in such a society?
- jlgreco 14y agoPeople want a chicken omelet, but god forbid someone suggest we work on getting an egg or a chicken first.
- TeMPOraL 14y agoIt is, but it's the transition process that's difficult - you need to sustain people gradually automated out of their jobs while the post-scarcity economy is not yet working.