See the problem isn’t that robots might replace my job, it’s that we live in a system where I need to work to eat.
You don’t have to work to eat. Get a 12-gauge, a .22 rifle and some fishing gear. Oh, lots of seeds as well. Go find a homesteading program.
Oh! You meant you want all the benefits of society without contributing! Misunderstood there for a moment.
What nonsense are you going on about? I pay my taxes. I contribute to society.
Btw the local wildlife population CANT support all of us. Animals and fish will go extinct and people will starve to death and die you absolute goofball.
Oh and hunting and fishing on land our laws keep the wildlife population stable in WOULD be living off society while contributing nothing. Societies hunting and licensing laws are the only reason there’s anything left to hunt or fish at all.
Enjoy jerking yourself off all day.
Edit: even native Americans nearly hunted all animals to extinction until European disease devastated their population. Native Americans had much smaller population and were far far less greedy with their hunting than your average billybob12-gauge. It’s not a sustainable way to live.
Oh, lots of seeds as well.
In what world is farming not work?
I don’t think anyone is worried about there being too many old people for young people to look after. I believe you’re confusing that for the very serious issue, being that there won’t be enough young people financially supporting social services to adequately fund them to meet the needs of the aging population. In that sense, AI automating jobs directly exacerbates the problem, because less young people working means less taxes funding things like social security and Medicare in the US.
People are afraid of their homes burning down, and of torrential rain flooding their homes. Wouldn’t these cancel each other out?
They probably aren’t the same people. I’m reminded of Rush Limbaugh’s habit of pretending a group of individuals were like one illogical person - for example, “Why do women get mad when men look at them as sex objects, but they wear such revealing clothing? If you walk around practically naked, guess what - men are going to look at you! Make up your mind!!” The fallacy is when groups of people with their own individual ideas and attitudes, who don’t necessarily agree with each other, are treated like they’re one irrational person.
Old people don’t pay much in taxes and AI doesn’t pay tax at all, so without the tax revenue of regular working class people all the social security benefits that the old people rely on will go bankrupt.
Hmm, that sounds sus. A society suddenly experiencing less labour demand because of technological advancement is a society that is, overall, enjoying the same level of wealth without the cost. If those benefits can’t be used to help those who are worse off due to the change, then it is some beneficiaries within the society that are causing the harm.
Yup, but thanks to unchecked capitalism, the increasing wealth is being concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer. The corporations using AI to replace workers should be making up for the lost tax revenue, but corporations also don’t pay much in taxes. The shareholders don’t care though because they don’t need social assistance, all they want is the force of law to protect their capital and keep the working class in line.
I for one cannot wait for robots to be able to do all the mundane tasks, like being a cashier or truck driver, så that people can work in sectors that produce more value per hour spent. This is just an opinion tho :)
If these jobs become automated, that doesn’t automatically create more “high level” jobs. It just creates unemployment.
