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Newest Reality

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1. Yes.

Reply to flying_wahini (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2020, 01:04 PM

Mar 2020

I have seen several videos and read articles about automation/robotics/AI.

The real problem they are talking about, up there in the Elysium, is: what do you do when you have too many obsolete human beings?

I mean, what's the profit model here? If you have too many rabbits, what's the solution since they just keep breeding?

Oh, and we'll have none of that utopian, ideological leisure society and do what you love, that's for certain. UBI my ass!

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Did you see driverless trucking episode on 60 Minutes last night? Wow 300,000 jobs [View all] flying_wahini Mar 2020 OP

Yes. Newest Reality Mar 2020 #1

The jobs won't disappear Loki Liesmith Mar 2020 #2

If the autonomous rigs can do look long haul Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #7

its not just trucking, automation is going to completely transform the labor market in 5-10 years Amishman Mar 2020 #3

I don't think it will ever happen Mosby Mar 2020 #4

I disagree Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #6

This is just what Andrew Yang Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #5

I did see that Chainfire Mar 2020 #8