It's estimated that as much as 50% of jobs could be replaced with advanced automation within the next 20 years:
In 40 years, we're looking at 80%+ of all paid jobs being replaced with technology. Those who argue that new jobs will be created are correct. New jobs will be created, but unfortunately, not enough jobs will be created to replace the ones that were lost. More, it's naive to think that most people can become highly paid technicians. It takes a special type of person, with a certain degree of intelligence and patience to repair and maintain technology. Not everyone can do that. If that wasn't enough, in the not-too-distant future we can see artificially intelligent robots, repairing and maintaining other robots. The autonomous systems will repair themselves, eliminating the need for human technitians.
Forget about communism and socialism. Those two words are scary and they carry too much historical baggage in the American mind. I shouldn't have named my nick, "communist front", I should've adopted a less provocative nick like "BobR2D2" or something like that. Then promote the idea of a Resource Based Economy / RBE, the nice way of saying communism, without all of the scary baggage. That's what the Venus Project did:
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I'm stuck on Marxism, and communism because I'm an old man, but the younger generation will realize when they see tens of millions of Americans living in squalor because technology has rendered them useless and ready for the compost heap ("Soylent Green"), that America must adopt a new economic system of production. That new system of production, won't produce the products that we consume on a daily basis, for the purpose of private capital accumulation, i.e. profits.
Money, markets, profits, all of these instruments of value and exchange will be replaced by necessity, with a system that is designed to meet everyone's material needs. Elevating the standard of living of all Americans, completely eliminating material scarcity and poverty. The American people will own the machinery and facilities of production together (i.e. "collectively", although I should avoid using such terms because they sound too "Stalinistic"). Together, we will own the technology and resources as a community, organizing production to meet our material needs.
A resource-based economy or RBE will become the obvious solution to the crisis of mass unemployment and poverty as a result of high-tech, 21st-century automation replacing human wage labor. We will socialize and democratize production, meeting all of our needs. The alternative to what I've just described is a new form of feudalism and slavery, where the rich own everything, and the rest of us are sent to the "soylent green" factory:
What is the secret of soylent green? Hmmm?
It is the socialist shitholes that will turn people into soylent green.
Remember, silly boy, you exist for the benefit of the State, in a socialist country.
Once you are no longer useful, you are toast.
As in dead and buried.
