task0778
Diamond Member
as more jobs get automated, but still some people are working, I see real, serious, no fucking around, problems.I am tired
2.4 Trillion and then 288 trillion a year
still higher than either of us could find out about welfare.
Very much so. My initial assessment was for a month and I forgot to multiple times 12 for the whole year.
Do not really see any way to make it work in a country as large as the US, which could be a problem in the future.
and I don't think it's more than 20 years away.
I good reason to continue to bring in millions of legal and illegal people into a population that is going to have a serious job problem in a few short years.
By the turn of the next century, all production and distribution will be accomplished by robots. Humans in these highly developed areas will need no jobs or income because everything you want will be free. We will find it amazing how little people actually want when they can have anything they want at any time they want it.
I think we're going to have to attack the problem of unemployment by making it much cheaper to live, and that is the upside to replacing humans with robots. Things like food, shelter, Heating/AC, transportation, clothing, etc. will be so much cheaper, partly due to less human labor costs and possibly cheaper materials and energy. Maybe instead of a 40 hour work week it gets reduced to 20 or whatever; maybe people get the first $1600 in exchange for 12 hours of labor doing something and then after that you can earn more money for more work. Spitballing here, it's going to take some time to get to that situation from where we are now and some things are going to have to change: our education system, health care, law enforcement, housing. We won't be making houses out of wood, we'll be using other products that are cheaper and more fire resistant; won't be any more gas powered vehicles either, some other form of energy will be employed.
I think what's going to have to happen is solidarity between consumers and workers. Eventually it will come to a point where people will refuse to buy products or use services that have eliminated humans partly or all together.
That would surprise me, I think people are going to buy the cheapest stuff they can if it's serviceable enough. Just like today when people buy foreign made products instead of American made, you gotta stretch your money for your family.