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17) Machines increasingly produce items in a cheaper, safer, and more robust way than people 18) In time there will be nothing worth paying a person for that a
by capisce 13y ago
17) Machines increasingly produce items in a cheaper, safer, and more robust way than people
18) In time there will be nothing worth paying a person for that a machine can't do cheaper or better
19a) People will need to work less and less as a result, and are free to pursue hobbies, be creative, enjoy nature, socialize more, and be less stressed and overall healthier as a result (if the benefits of distributed efficiency are evenly distributed)
19b) People will go hungry and homeless due to not having a source of income because of a system set in place by ignorant voters scared of socialism and communism
20) Utopia or dystopia? We choose
- user24 13y agoWe've chosen 19b so far. I disagree with 18. Would agree if "nothing" changed to "fewer things". I'm thinking of all manner of things; art, theatre, sex, the social aspect of chatting to your butcher, making better machines, responding to new market needs, etc. Machines can't replace all things, but I agree that there are lots that they can. I suppose if "cheaper or better" are mutually exclusive then I might agree with 18. 19c) People will try socialism or communism and end up being yet another depressing case study in a "failed political ideologies" book.