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There will be few people needed at the apex of the arts, once the best of the best can do the jobs of most everyone else combined. We still need an economic pla
by imh 12y ago
There will be few people needed at the apex of the arts, once the best of the best can do the jobs of most everyone else combined. We still need an economic plan for everyone else.
- munificent 12y agoTheir amino acids will make an excellent source material for the 3D food printers.
- puranjay 12y agoI don't look forward to my future as soylent green
- jmckib 12y agoNah, I'm pretty it will be more efficient to just grow meat in a lab.
- saraid216 12y agoOut of what?
- jmckib 12y agoTry googling "in vitro meat" and you may find some answers, but I don't know if this problem is solved yet. This article mentions algae as a possibility: https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/04/24/steak-of-the-art-the-fatal-flaws-of-in-vitro-meat/ https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/04/24/steak-of-...
- bcoates 12y agoI think you're vastly underestimating the diversity of tasks to be mastered. Everything is a hard problem if you want to do it well enough, and the current economy consists of a vast number of distinct kinds things made sloppily.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoJapan is naturally doing this through their low birthrates.
- tehchromic 12y agoI agree, there will always be fewer people needed at the apex of the arts, and in fact that's the definition of the apex! But an economic plan that revisits the idea of what an apex is, I think would accomplish that 'for everyone else'. That's why the idea of micro farming is so interesting: in an agrarian system where people grow their own food, as a pastime and 'art', then you can afford many, many apexes - at least one per farm/garden.