Human jobs being replaced by technology.

[Lord Percy]

Obviously this is a good thing - the daily grinds of life being done by machines instead. But in the current system, when technology takes your job away, you have to simply join the dole queue.

As everything gets more and more advanced, peoples' jobs are just going to become more and more obsolete.

So more and more people inevitably end up on welfare.

How long can that last? And why is it such a worry when really we should be happy about how much easier life can now be?

Watching this now - Will Work For Free. Thought I'd share it before I get to the end. Seems interesting so far

[pepperami]

Well for now someone will have to mend & maintain the machines.
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[instigator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768h3Tz4Qik

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[pepperami]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[duhawkz]

maybe we'll end up like The Culture
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[Lord Percy]

Almost halfway through the documentary now. It's really, really interesting.

It highlights really well how almost all forms of labour will be rendered obsolete by technology.

Ok there'll be the people required to understand/fix the machines, but we don't exactly need 7 billion technicians to keep things running smoothly.

Anyway watch the vid, it's really interesting

[Robby]

I'm somewhat surprised at the amount of work that is still manual labour when it could be automated.

Do a job that requires your mind. If you are too stupid for such a job, I'm sure you can be recycled. My cats are always hungry.

[Hetzer]

This is why we're all here in this reality playing this game; back in the other reality (which is also a simulation) all the jobs are automated and we're bored.


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[Derivative]

[Mark_F]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Benno]

[Lord Percy]

So I've just finished watching it all. Mega, mega interesting.

It kind of just confirmed stuff I already assumed to be true - society will inevitably begin to automate itself and in theory humans should have more time to do as they please.

It was just interesting because the documentary quite specifically outlined how every sector could easily slash a good 90% of the human input.

Actually the amount of things that can be done by technology today is quite amazing (all in the video). If only the selfish profit-incentive of humans would stop stifling all the new ideas.

[Benno]

[Hetzer]

Fundamentally it'll mean less toys and resources and stuff available for the elite, which is why they'll maintain the pretense of everyone needing a job for as long as possible.
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