What will happen to the unemployed after robots take over the economy? (unemployment, generation)
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We'll get to the point where we will be forced to go UBI or some kind of voucher system for housing, food and other necessities.
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We'll have entire areas with no jobs and either be wild west self subsistence areas with many areas super high in crime. Think domed cities where the people with work permits go in to work and live safely while the sub humans without jobs are stuck out of the dome to fend for themselves.
Likely will take a hundred to hundred and fifty years but it is coming. Fairly sure that any job in the distant future will be highly regarded, even if it is menial today.
We aren't horses. We have intellect, and reason. There will be innovation, and technologies to replace those jobs from automation. Plus, who do you think will install, maintain, and repair the automation? HUMANS.
How many people do you think will be needed to develop and maintain the automation?
And who do you think will be better set up to lead those jobs: the educated liberals in Silicon Valley, or the conservative in West Virginia who insists that coal mining is still a viable engine of future economic growth?
We'll get to the point where we will be forced to go UBI or some kind of voucher system for housing, food and other necessities.
Or
We'll have entire areas with no jobs and either be wild west self subsistence areas with many areas super high in crime. Think domed cities where the people with work permits go in to work and live safely while the sub humans without jobs are stuck out of the dome to fend for themselves.
Likely will take a hundred to hundred and fifty years but it is coming. Fairly sure that any job in the distant future will be highly regarded, even if it is menial today.
It's going to come a lot faster than a hundred years. Technology increases exponentially. In ten years time, millions will lose their jobs to robots.
I now have 4 robots at my work which do the work that 4 humans could be doing. Other companies can't compete with a company that uses robots which will force the rapid adoption of even more robots. Those companies which don't adapt will shut down or be absorbed by the larger companies. When those smaller companies get absorbed, there will be an immediate reduction in the number of employees at the acquired company, all replaced by robots.
How many people do you think will be needed to develop and maintain the automation?
And who do you think will be better set up to lead those jobs: the educated liberals in Silicon Valley, or the conservative in West Virginia who insists that coal mining is still a viable engine of future economic growth?
And in a few decades everybody will want stronger government. The difference will be that one political party will want the government to defend their jobs from robots and the other political party will want the government to control and regulate the robots so the robots can fund some kind of a living wage or government distribution of resources.
Bye-bye anarcho-capitalists. Unless you're a billionaire who wants to start your own nation on a floating city in international waters, you've got about thirty years before your political aspirations go the way of the dinosaurs.
The ones controlling everything, making life miserable for everyone else, well, it's just a matter of time before they tweak the robotic world enough, and will use the robots to attack us regular folk. Now is the time to fight, but they are doing a good job at causing us to fight among eachother that it keeps us distracted until the technology is ready.
Take a good look at the movies such as Irobot and Terminator. They will be our future if we don't make a stand.
People will only starve if there is no food. Robotics will produce even more excess food than we have now. And as distribution is the main limit with food these days, that aspect will be easier and faster.
Money!
Our money is fiat and we will eventually have a time where our food is either supplied centrally, or those unemployed will get an allowance.
Maybe we will all get an allowance, and end other forms of welfare.
Whose going to pay for those allowances? Do you really think the rich will just fork over the money to pay for people's free food and housing? Personally, I think they will just have had enough of the lowly middle class and poor person, and just sic the robots and get rid of us once and for all. Keep some around for artistic licenses, but that be it. Hopefully by the time that comes, if there is a God, he will have come down and saved the good people from this hell.
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