Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon
by username223 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:50AM
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> Cashiers, warehouse workers, harvesters...
Paralegals, sports reporters, basic web coders...
> An utopia for some, hell on earth for others.
"We" could farm the "others" for nutrients and trace elements (until "we" become "others" thanks to future automation), or the "others" could kill "us," or the species as a whole could find a different arrangement than trading labor for food. I'm betting on mass extinction followed by thousands of years of bare survival by humans and a small number of similarly cockroach-esque species, but maybe we'll do better.
That's clearly a big problem for our societies which seem to collapse when unemployment raises. It's also clear that not everybody will end up as a software engineer or neurosurgeon. So what's the solution? That's left as an exercise for the reader.
What would a society where only a tiny portion of the population needs to actively work to provide for everybody look like? An utopia for some, hell on earth for others.