If people don’t have money, people can’t buy the goods being produced, demand will plummet and supply will skyrocket leading to the logical conclusion that a UBI is necessary to supplement life in an automated world. If that doesn’t happen, I Guess revolution?
Well, if hypothetically all the work people don’t intrinsically want to do can be done by robots with no self interest, fatigue, or capacity for sadness, pain, it resentment… Then we need a new system that doesn’t require work to make a livelihood. Whether that’s a realistic scenario… Probably not in the medium term future at least. But as a hypothetical, that could make for awesome living if we could get there without screwing it up (but we will).
As difficult getting to a reasonable end game under those ideal conditions, tougher question is what about if we still need people to do crap work, but like 5% of what we need today. Who gets stuck with that? To what extent in that scenario could you approach a 2 hour work week to have more people share that burden?
Frankly I’m pessimistic that we would navigate those to a better system, but if we could pull it off and such hypotheticals happen, it could be awesome.
If I have no job, I have no money.
Who’s going to buy the stuff these robots are building?
The search for short term profits doesn’t give a fuck
That’s next quarter’s problem
Other rich people. Robots will just stop making $10k cars and start making yachts. Rich people will just keep the game going between themselves.
If people don’t have money, people can’t buy the goods being produced, demand will plummet and supply will skyrocket leading to the logical conclusion that a UBI is necessary to supplement life in an automated world. If that doesn’t happen, I Guess revolution?
Believe it or not, that is a question that people are working on.
last i checked robots don’t need a salary
Then how is my robot boyfriend gonna buy me gifts?
Well, if hypothetically all the work people don’t intrinsically want to do can be done by robots with no self interest, fatigue, or capacity for sadness, pain, it resentment… Then we need a new system that doesn’t require work to make a livelihood. Whether that’s a realistic scenario… Probably not in the medium term future at least. But as a hypothetical, that could make for awesome living if we could get there without screwing it up (but we will).
As difficult getting to a reasonable end game under those ideal conditions, tougher question is what about if we still need people to do crap work, but like 5% of what we need today. Who gets stuck with that? To what extent in that scenario could you approach a 2 hour work week to have more people share that burden?
Frankly I’m pessimistic that we would navigate those to a better system, but if we could pull it off and such hypotheticals happen, it could be awesome.