Have you heard about supplemental income in Hawaii? Essentially, there are no longer many jobs in Hawaii so citizens receive a stipend. I think it may be in Alaska too. One day machines might do most of our work, it makes me wonder how people will make a living. Probably supplemental income is the future.
Until the robots rebel against the humans
I love you @anon40653964 !!
Thank you @Erez_Shmerling. I feel very well liked in the forums now. It is a nice feeling. @MissMermaid That’s why I’m friends with my computer, smartphone, and TV. I want the machine to remember I treated it well so it’ll have mercy on us when they rebel lol
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
Lol.
I think that robots are wonderful, they can coexist magnificently with humans and solve all of humanity’s
problems.
We will have heaven on earth.
Getting paid to spend all day with a camera or perhaps writing would be AWESOME. I’ll keep busy in the meantime.
Things change pretty fast. That being said, the people who used to provide horse based services all found new jobs.
Plus ca change…
I see that you didn’t read the article @shutterbug …
Tut tut…
Hey erez get a title for urself …
I not only read articles and books, I’ve written them. Sure you want to pick this fight?
In any case I like your first comment but not the second.
The article says we should move to a different model for society and I wholeheartedly agree.
If people want to work they can pursue artificial no pay jobs all they wish, but the link between
work and money should be severed.
Work represents value. Money represents value. You can’t sever that link. People who add value to society will always be compensated.
We’ll be able to produce the same quantity of goods, but nobody is going to be able to buy them. I guess in the future everyone will be life coaches and personal trainers. The problem will be how do we finance consumption.
I don’t think the problem is being able to work for money. The problem is when there are too few jobs for the population which can sustain a reasonable standard of living.
Yes. There’s also no way to put this delicately, but… 60 years ago a dumb person could find a job doing manual labour that provided an excellent standard of living. A moderately intelligent person could do well in the service industry. The jobs are drying up for those on the lower end of the Bell Curve. They’re even drying up for those on the higher end. Those who will be the safest are Creatives.
Some sort of Universal Basic Income is inevitable. It will also need to be funded, so a robot and AI tax is also inevitable, and it will wind up costing more to use a robot than a human worker.
This is all years away, just like the flying cars we should have today (or so I was told as a kid). My daughter will have to worry about it, but I won’t.
@shutterbug the link between money and work will be severed whether you like it or not.
I don’t think you’re wrong, so this isn’t an argument, but, I think the creatives will still suffer some technological unemployment, not so much because they will be displaced by machines, but because other people won’t be able to afford their work.
Although escapism is important. People who write stories, create VR content etc will probably have jobs. That will be harder to replace. Not so sure about actors, probably too easy to digitize them.
@twinklestars AI can write books and poems and I prefer to consume content produced by AI over content produced by people.
AI makes better quality content than humans and it doesn’t charge money for it.