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Re:Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything by toomuchtodo on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:11PM (#6829038)
It only works until 51% of the population is unemployed and in the streets cold and hungry.

The pitchfork business is going to boom at that point.

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Re:Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything by thatthatis on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:22PM (#6829110)
Over the past 150 years or so we went from ~90% of the labor force working in agriculture to between 1 and 10% working in agriculture.

That's a shift of about 80% over two generations.

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Re:Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything by toomuchtodo on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:28PM (#6829139)
We were also able to find jobs for those who no longer worked in ag. It appears there is concern (quite a bit, actually) that we may no longer be able to find jobs for those displaced by software and robotics (automation).

If you continue to automate jobs, there will eventually be very few jobs left. How the result of this is handled will be interesting to say the least.

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Re:Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything by thatthatis on Sunday December 01, 2013 @04:00PM (#6829310)
The concern is not new. It's been around for centuries.
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Re:Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything by kansface on Sunday December 01, 2013 @04:51PM (#6829534)
Sure, but there is reason to believe it is different this time around. We are close to automating away all blue collar jobs outside of the service sector. We are also making inroads in white collar jobs too like law and medicine. At some point, minus an apocalypse, we will be able to automate away most meaningful work for everyone. This was not the case 150 years ago.
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