This is what automation will create if we continue the logic that everyone has to work and if you don't have a job it's because you're a lazy freeloader.
If we keep this mentality of a full time job for every person we are in for a rude awakening in the next couple decades. Automation is going to replace large segments of the economy and they will do that work better than a human ever did.
The idea that everyone needs a job to be able to survive is an idea we need to let go of if we want to continue to progress.
well thats like the industrial revolution but at a different layer.
i think another real difference is that we have way more people on the planet now (way too many, all scientific evidence points that out, too) thus this will be worse than the industrial revolution.
Added to that, computers can automate a lot of "thinking jobs" as well, in fact.
At some point we've to realize that:
- you cant keep pooping babies because you feel like you're more important than the planet
- you cant have a 8h work day for everyone, and you also can't enslave some people to these and have the other as the manipulative ultra powerful individuals
Unfortunately that's exactly the state of the world today. If ever we solve this, we might even solve more important problems like energy, life, and what not - much more quickly than ever before.
(and I therefore vote to be governed by skynet any day of the week)
> way too many, all scientific evidence points that out, too
The hallmark of scientific evidence is citation. You don't provide any.
> you cant keep pooping babies
Developed countries typically have birth rates lower than the "sustaining" birth rate.
> you also can't enslave some people to these and have the other as the manipulative ultra powerful individuals
This is the elephant in the room. Labor vs capital is stacked as it is, and automation will make it worse. We have to try to figure out a way to deal with it before things get violent (and they will get violent if we don't).
If we keep this mentality of a full time job for every person we are in for a rude awakening in the next couple decades. Automation is going to replace large segments of the economy and they will do that work better than a human ever did.
The idea that everyone needs a job to be able to survive is an idea we need to let go of if we want to continue to progress.