• HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org
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      Would be cool, if it wasn’t so hard to find a job already. Now androids are going to take the rest. If I would be able to buy an android for doing house chores then yes it would be cool

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        There is always going to be jobs. Else, there is nobody who’s buying products from Amazon. It’s a self-regulating system. New jobs will be created when old ones die out. Just think of the millions of workers doing manual sewing that got replaced by mechanical sewing machines. Or all the farmers and oxes that got replaced by tractors.

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          There will always be some jobs. That’s no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.

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            Some will be left behind. It’s not good. But if you look at the course of our past 10.000 years history, it has always meant progress and a better quality of life for the majority.

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          What jobs will delivery robots create? Mechanics? What about summer time jobs? One has to begin somewhere. No one is born an engineer with experience

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      Presumably because it’s Amazon doing it. It is quite reasonable to have a general level of distaste and suspicion for tha company

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      Because I’ve seen this movie before, and it did not turn out well for the humans.

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      Technological unemployment is only going to get worse without a plan to support the people being replaced by automation. They can’t just ‘get another job’. As long as the benefits of this stuff only goes to shareholders, it can fuck off.

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        It’s called structural change. And I don’t see why it’s a bad thing. We would still be plowing our fields with ox and cart if we had denied every technological unemployment in the past.

        Delivery jobs are the most ungrateful and exhausting low-paying jobs. And you want humans to keep doing them for the rest of mankind’s future? Pretty grim future in my opinion.

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          It’s not that we don’t want robots doing it - honestly that’d be pretty cool. It’s that we want to be sure the people that are being replaced are being taken care of.

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            I imagine a post-scarcity world where all basic needs are met for everyone on the planet without question, and with minimal need for human labour, and that more as technical overseers. People would be free to work as much or as little as they want at whatever they want for their own betterment, or the betterment of the world, or do nothing at all if they want, or whatever. Is that too much to ask?

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          No. I don’t want them to starve when they get replaced by robots, which is the current plan, apparently.

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            Well if you’re ignorant enough to think things will stay the same for the rest of your life while digitalization is ramping up… With all respect, who’s at fault here?! Just diversify and find different avenues.