2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders, Automation, and the Fate of the US [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)But jobs re literally vanishing for good so current levels of unemployment re likely to be replaced by levels of employment that are more typical of pre-industrial society soon.
For example, how is it determined what to pay people when more and more have never worked the way we considered to be work in the past (which is really just the 20th century) Lets not forget that more and more people likely never wil work the way people still do today without a level of skill which takes maybe two decades of their lives to attain.
If we stay on the path we are on now its not too much of an exaggeration to posit that perhaps we're stupidly creating a world where there is a very real risk that someday one person will own everything and everybody else will own nothing.
That kind of injustice I think will be flirting with species extinction, if not by our own hand, I think our robots would eventually get smart enough to intervene and remove us from power lest we destroy ourselves and our planet. If we're lucky they would not kill us. This isnt me speaking, this is a consensus among scientists.
This is what Bernie Sander's speech at the Vatican was about, BTW.