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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by bertjk on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @08:05PM (#16120645)
If every job is automated, someone will invent a new job that isn't. There will always be some people who will only be content when they have some amount more wealth than their neighbors, and will be willing to work to make up the difference.
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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by supreme_sublime on Thursday January 11, 2018 @09:16AM (#16123959)
If Earth reached that kind of point, I could certainly see people attempting to colonize other planets, to mine asteroids and all of the labor associated with that. I really think a lot of this automation eliminating labor talk way early. There was similar talk a century ago.
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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by kelnos on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:03PM (#16184069)
Sure. I'm talking about an unimaginably far away future when we've colonized all planets in the universe that we care to, and have unlocked every imaginable and unimaginable secret before us.

Obviously this is a future that's wildly fantastic, and one we're unlikely to ever attain, but... that's part of the thought experiment.

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