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Humans Need Not Apply

japes [Edit] [Delete] 9 replies 19:38, 13 August '14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Technology! Robots! Doom!

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  • We should probably just get this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income and be done with most jobs.

    j0hn | 13 Aug '14, 20:09 | X
    • There's not really much stopping us.

      I guess either the government's scared we would all get so bored we'd kill ourselves without lovely pointless WORK, or maybe we all actually hate each other enough to want everyone to labour without any real reason.

      RFWare @j0hn | 13 Aug '14, 20:15 | X
    • I still don't understand basic income. I don't get why it wouldn't just lead to massive inflation.

      japes @j0hn | 13 Aug '14, 20:23 | X
      • It would if it was left under a mattress, but if people had to spend the income it'd be okay

        So it probably makes sense to give it to the worst off at first since they'd need to use it to live and to fund it (partly) through taxes on luxury items.

        RFWare @japes | 13 Aug '14, 20:29 | X
  • reckon the most obvious, glaring indictment

    of the utter inhumane absurdity of our entire socio-economic setup is how it necessarily turns 'workers' and 'amazing labour-saving technology' into antagonists

    tiramisu | 13 Aug '14, 20:45 | X
    • imagine a world

      where 'humans having hardly any jobs to do because we have amazing robots that can do them for us' was... a good thing?!?

      tiramisu @tiramisu | 13 Aug '14, 20:50 | X
      • I remember my Dad saying that in the 60/70s

        everyone was predicting that technology would mean that everyone would by now be working three days a week with the rest of the time off for leisure (while being paid the equivalent of a five day week salary and with full employment).

        Unfortunately what's actually happened is the employers have used technology to sack loads of people while making their remaining staff work the same hours they did before for the same (adjusted for inflation, etc) or worse pay/conditions/etc.

        blimeycharlie @tiramisu | 13 Aug '14, 20:57 | X
        japes and RFWare this'd this
        • yeah exactly

          hence the utter inhumane absurdity of our entire socio-economic setup. when labour-saving technology is something that fucks people over instead of improving their lives, that means WE ARE DOING SOCIETY WRONG.

          tiramisu @blimeycharlie | 13 Aug '14, 21:05 | X
          japes, j0hn, blimeycharlie, furio, and RFWare this'd this
  • so how long do you imagine before the transportation industry is mostly automated? how long before there are no more human truck drivers?

    doesn't seem very far away. thanks google car.

    japes | 14 Aug '14, 10:25 | X
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