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I don't understand why you think any rules change just because the jobs being done change. This revolution of automation has largely already taken place, and I
by tolmasky 14y ago
I don't understand why you think any rules change just because the jobs being done change. This revolution of automation has largely already taken place, and I would argue that the automation isn't even the important part. What difference does it make if all food is generated by robots vs today's reality of most food being generated by a tiny percentage of the humans with the huge help of technology? I certainly don't generate my own food, and I don't do anything very essential by the "physicist viewpoint", and yet I am still able to acquire food. Most people in this country don't farm and are still able to get food despite doing "non physicist" jobs. I didn't need a job handed to me or invented to keep me busy. My job is completely non-essential and would have made absolutely no sense 1000 years ago. It however exists because of technology and surplus.
The guy playing StarCraft makes money. He then uses said money to buy food from guy who owns the crops, just like today. Its no different than how soccer players play for people for money. What is the complexity here? Why do you think we will need to figure out means of "distribution"?
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoGood point....hmmmm..... So you are saying that the "wealth" of the changes in farming is produced by say 5% of the population, and they are the only ones who are really needed. The rest of us get to play a game where we guess the total wealth of the world (ie the food) and assign money to it. Then we split that money somehow (playing starcraft) and give some of it back to the farmers. I suppose I am now taking econ 101. I would however suggest that the automation revolution has not finished - the mechanisation revolution may be slowing but software is barely started.