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If robots can replace all human jobs, then why does anyone need to work? Or why does money even make sense them. All people need is food, water, and shelter. If
by gtremper 13y ago
If robots can replace all human jobs, then why does anyone need to work? Or why does money even make sense them. All people need is food, water, and shelter. If machines can provide all that, lacking a job doesn't matter.
- krapp 13y agoRobots won't replace the human need to exploit finite resources and other people for personal gain. Which is why I think complete replacement of human labor by robots isn't likely to happen, even if it becomes technically possible -- because the entire reason for displacing human labor with automation is to remove the need to pay more people to do more work, entirely a capitalist means to a capitalist end that doesn't make sense if the rich don't keep getting richer, or if there's not an economy to take advantage of all the efficiency in all the automation.
- aianus 13y agoBecause a large part of life is competition for a mate. This tends to manifest itself in American culture as the pursuit of material wealth and social status through employment.
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoThat's just kind of silly. We have so much silly thinking in HN. So in this robot magic land people are just living with basic necessities and that's? Sounds like the robot utopia worked out great ... Why does money make sense? Do your magic robots work on perpetual motion? And the robot owners are going to provide all these necessities ? Why ?