Re:Jobs that no longer exist
by Waterluvian on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:07AM
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I would intuit that the proportion of labourers to the rest has been decreasing throughout human history. I think what has me most curious is how low can it go. Is it possible to have near 0% labourers?
The difference with robots though is that they can actually 100% out perform humans in the not to distant future. Once a robot has hands as agile and controllable as ours, and once they have energy requirements that are cheaper than ours, I don't see how humans could compete with them in non-cerebral jobs. And there is a good segment of the population that can only do physical work.