A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs?

Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday October 09, 2017 @05:53PM (#15437791)

The 75% should only be provided with little more than bare essentials. An apartment, food, and health care, with a small allowance for niceties.

The 25% that actually work should be rewarded with luxuries. Financial means to travel, own their own house, drive a nice car, etc.

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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by gehwartzen on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:23PM (#15447063)

Who do the 25% sell all their custom salads to? Automation is great at producing consumer goods not so much at producing luxury goods. One would think that the problem of not enough consumers to buy the stuff automation produces would be a self limiting mechanism. A UBI doesnt really address the problem either because it is essentially just taking money from those that own the automation equipment and giving it to those that don't so they can turn around and buy stuff from the automation equipment :/

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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by m0llusk on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:33AM (#15442644)

But human life is dynamic. The most productive and innovative contributors start out as drooling infants and up as feeble elders. Society has to support more than high earners and their favorites.

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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:58PM (#15443878)

Certainly. And we'll support the drooling infants and feeble elders.

And we'd also provide the opportunities for people to learn what is necessary to move from the 75% to the 25%.

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