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Originally Posted by RichardBartlett
I've spent a lot of useless time thinking about how AI is going to totally destroy our modern way of life.
Western and probably most civilisations are based on the 40 HR working week. You go to work you make money you come home and spend that money.
Once AI and robotics truly get going most jobs will simply disappear. Lawyers, bankers, accountants ,office workers, shop workers, manufacturing, assembly lines, the list is almost endless. Plus as these jobs go the knock-on effects will mean we need less bus drivers, as no one is going to work any more, builders , cleaners, maintenance men, as offices and most shops are not needed, cleaners . Less cars less planes because people won't need to travel as much. Slowly but surely society as we know grinds to a halt.
Only a few workers say roughly 5-10% will be actually working to support the rest of the population.
How can you pay those workers enough to support themselves plus enough to encourage them to work and also to fund the 90-95% non workers and the whole of society? You pay them a million bucks but tax them at 99%? Who's going to do that??
If western governments are so clever (tbc) why are they so hellbent on bringing in millions of non skilled non socially integrated and in many cases non socially intergratable people into a not too distant future that requires less and less people to function?
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I think people that poor concrete, put roofs on, and build pools have nothing to worry about. Eventually, they’ll be cyborgs than can do that stuff. But the cyborgs will probably cost the equivalent of a luxury yacht. Human labor will be much cheaper (at least in the short term).
Engineers, clerks, etc. are where the big risk is. Anyone working in Hollywood and the entertainment industry are among the walking dead. AI will generate all our movies and entertainment for us.
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