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This is happening in Asia also. A question arise as to why we work and how fast should we work? In the absence of technology, many things (e.g: ability to write
by q2 12y ago
This is happening in Asia also. A question arise as to why we work and how fast should we work? In the absence of technology, many things (e.g: ability to write this comment) are not possible. But technology is subsuming many activities where people earn just sufficient amount for the peaceful life of their families without bothering about loss of jobs or what position his country stands in the GDP/productivity rankings ...etc.
Economic press has created a race among leaderships of nations on who is developed(advanced) i.e. praiseworthy and who is not and many organizations started preaching ways to improve productivity as if productivity only is the ultimate goal of human life. Political leaders cannot dare to advocate alternatives because that is suicidal for them, their countries ...etc.
I think, technology's effect on human life is like inverted bathtub curve i.e. technology advancement to certain level is beneficial to society but beyond that we enter region where costs/losses outweigh benefits if we consider entire society. No doubt, there will be winners any time but as a whole society loses and inequality may rise causing law and order issues and impacting even winners indirectly. In that sense, technology is like level of water in river and beyond certain level, it is not good for humanity.
World is highly decentralized and innovators or cultures who tasted success in innovation won't agree that progress in certain technologies need to be stopped or efforts need to be directed towards other required activities. So technology progress always happen and jobs also gets destroyed as collateral damage.
- delackner 12y agoPolitical leaders cannot advocate alternatives like a guaranteed income for everyone, only so long as the people fail to demand such measures. The history of technology is a long progression of jobs that we don't have to do anymore, freeing us up to both achieve more complicated tasks, and to require fewer hours of human energy to achieve a certain level of pleasant life for everyone. McDonalds cook, taxi driver, self driver, brick layer, so many jobs today are just on the edge of being unnecessary, and that is a great thing. Those people would be much happier, and society as a whole much safer, if we just gave all these people the money they need to live, and simply ask that they contribute a little civic participation (talk to some old people, supervise children, etc).
- zaroth 12y ago> Those people would be much happier, and society as a whole much safer, if we just gave all these people the money they need to live, and simply ask... The money they need to live? So... from cradle to grave "these people" should simply be given all the food, clothing, shelter, education, entertainment, transportation, etc. that they need and no need to earn any of it? I assume the plan is to confiscate the money from the other people, the ones that worked for about a century investing their money into developing the technology, processes, and software to bring that level of AI into the world. Pour money into the bottom, it's spent through the system, confiscate it at the top, rinse, repeat? This doesn't work because it turns out if you can't actually keep the money you earn, you tend not to bother earning it.