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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by ovi256 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:00AM (#20352541)
Anything that increases societal atomization is bad. People need to feel they're contributing to the commons, to society at large, that they're needed and useful. Also, multi-generational welfare, the logical result of chronic unemployement, is a trap, a failure mode that does enormous harm.
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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by Hroble on Thursday July 04, 2019 @05:31AM (#20353001)
Does doing a job that could be done better by robots make you feel useful and contributing to society though?
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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by ovi256 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @10:21AM (#20354852)
Yes, as there are plenty of those being done by humans today. Manual labour in developping countries (and plenty of small manual tasks in developped countries too, how many people wash dishes manually when dishwashers exist?), weird one-of-a-kind knowledge jobs for which the company doesn't bother buying the automation software that exists, because the transaction costs make it uneconomical.

There is no reason to believe this results in less social cohesion and self-satisfaction than a not-doable-by-robots job.

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