Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf]
by daenz on Friday November 18, 2016 @10:44PM
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...or the notion of what a job is changes. Unless machines can literally provide everything that humans can want (including art, interaction, companionship, etc), then there will always be something for humans to do to make money.
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Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf]
by tiglionabbit on Friday November 18, 2016 @11:46PM
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Like in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. You can make anything in the matter compiler for free, so long as you've bought the intellectual property rights for the design.
Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf]
by intended on Saturday November 19, 2016 @01:01AM
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Which are all relatively poorly paying.
Art is a log scale when it comes to compensation - and many of the best paid are dead.
The issue is not job loss, its job replacement with worse paying service sector jobs which act as a barrier to upward social movement (because lower pay means less access to various positive network effects)
Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf]
by stevetrewick on Saturday November 19, 2016 @10:23AM
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>Which are all relatively poorly paying
Relative to stuff we place higher utility on than art, because opportunity cost. But as the price of that stuff approaches zero due to mass automation of production so does the opportunity cost of art.