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soon robots will eliminate those jobs completely anyway, the ultimate protection against low-wage jobs

• toomuchtodo 13y ago
  The option then will be simple: Pitchforks or a Basic Income.
  • avar 13y ago
    Or performing some useful function that can't trivially be replaced by menial robotic labor?
    • toomuchtodo 13y ago
      Would you consider being a doctor a useful function? IBM's Watson already performs as well as a second year med student [http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/05/25/ibms-watson-now-a-second-year-med-student/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/05/25/ibms-watso...]. Eventually, all jobs will be replaced by software or robotic labor. What then? EDIT: "Your Job Taught to Machines Puts Half U.S. Work at Risk" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/your-job-taught-to-machines-puts-half-u-s-work-at-risk.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/your-job-taught-to-...
      • sb23 13y ago
        You get a job fixing the machines
  • VMG 13y ago
    In the past, the reaction to pitchfork was usually emigration
    • toomuchtodo 13y ago
      To where? An island with no poor people? The world is too small for emigration to be a solution anymore.
      • eru 13y ago
        Just to a better run place.