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That same concern existed 150 years ago and the truth is that we are still working the same amount of hours as before. We just don't do the same things for livi
by 6t6t6 12y ago
That same concern existed 150 years ago and the truth is that we are still working the same amount of hours as before. We just don't do the same things for living.
There will always be jobs to do. Most of the manufacturing and repetitive jobs can be automated, but there will always be jobs that only humans can do. For instance, food can be processed by a machine, but I prefer to pay to see how a sushi master prepares each Nigiri for me. Or, would would someone prefer a massage chair rather than getting that massage from a human? Music? Arts? Design? All that things can be done by machines, but we will always prefer to get them from a human. Our lifestyle will change. Objects will loose value because they will be extremely cheap to produce and our jobs will be more focused towards services to other people.
What concerns me most is the inequality and how the richness produced by machines will flow though the society. With that level of automation in the industry it will be really easy for a few people to control the production of all the goods.
But this is something that has to be solved by the politics.