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NYmasajista posted...

Balrog0 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Although automation will eliminate some jobs, it will also significantly lower the skill floor on other jobs, allowing people to perform at the level of today's trained experts with far less training and experience.

I'm more inclined to think people will do more like people babysitting or gig jobs because automation will make stuff cheaper, freeing up money for that kind of thing to be viable

Granted gubmint regulations will interfere with that

You two are only thinking about people that will still have employment and wages and not the effects of more of humanity being completely superfluous to the system and without value to it besides the private prisons and similar sectors.

Stuff will only be cheaper until human staffed sweatshops have been mostly put out of business, try thinking a little longer term to see why many don't like where this process will probably take humanity in out current profits-are-everything system where wealth and power are continually concentrating into fewer and fewer hands.

Naw, I'm specifically saying the idea of wages and jobs as we know them are going to go away. I'm further saying that the standard of living will be such that stuff that's usually been undervalued, like care work, will become relatively more lucrative to do for profit.

But yes I'm aware of the potential downsides if we don't have some kind of public response.
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