"How many trades and services which rely on human dexterity will in the not so distant future become robotic tasks."
Answer: All the boring ones. Creative work stays, manual labour goes.
Encomys rebalance slowly as technology increases.
It might increase unemployment in the shortterm, but it also makes products cheaper. In the longrun, it balances. People work less, and can do more with that they earn.
We can feed thousands more people for vastely less effort then a few hundred years ago. More and more work goes from being essential (food,water,shelter) to being entertainment or research based.
This is a -good- trend and should be encouraged.
"That is why, in a world where there was once no unemployment, tens of millions are unemployed today, and many hundreds of millions more lead tedious, demeaning, unfulfilling lives as their skills become worthless. "
A world with no unemployment? You mean back when most of humanity spent most of their time farming? Because THAT was tedious and unforfilling.
We have vastly more freetime in todays world.
We can work for a few hours and feed ourselfs for a week on those wages.
If you stop to think about that, its incredible.*
*(and yes, I acknowledge this is partly due to some foods being far too cheap and exploiting of the countrys it comes from)
"; the world just doesn't need another billion programmers/architects/doctors/whatever."
Moreso then farmers, blacksmiths and builders it does, yes. You have a very romantic view of ye-old-days.
(of course, the world also dosnt need a bigger population period. But thats a different mater...)
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Removing jobs from *needing to be done* massively helps the human race as it reduces the total workload for all of humanity.
No, the pains of this world come from daft encomic systems and systemic inefficiencys not from reduceing labour needed to achieve stuff.
8:35 am
"How many trades and services which rely on human dexterity will in the not so distant future become robotic tasks."
Answer: All the boring ones. Creative work stays, manual labour goes.
Encomys rebalance slowly as technology increases.
It might increase unemployment in the shortterm, but it also makes products cheaper. In the longrun, it balances. People work less, and can do more with that they earn.
We can feed thousands more people for vastely less effort then a few hundred years ago. More and more work goes from being essential (food,water,shelter) to being entertainment or research based.
This is a -good- trend and should be encouraged.
"That is why, in a world where there was once no unemployment, tens of millions are unemployed today, and many hundreds of millions more lead tedious, demeaning, unfulfilling lives as their skills become worthless. "
A world with no unemployment? You mean back when most of humanity spent most of their time farming? Because THAT was tedious and unforfilling.
We have vastly more freetime in todays world.
We can work for a few hours and feed ourselfs for a week on those wages.
If you stop to think about that, its incredible.*
*(and yes, I acknowledge this is partly due to some foods being far too cheap and exploiting of the countrys it comes from)
"; the world just doesn't need another billion programmers/architects/doctors/whatever."
Moreso then farmers, blacksmiths and builders it does, yes. You have a very romantic view of ye-old-days.
(of course, the world also dosnt need a bigger population period. But thats a different mater...)
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Removing jobs from *needing to be done* massively helps the human race as it reduces the total workload for all of humanity.
No, the pains of this world come from daft encomic systems and systemic inefficiencys not from reduceing labour needed to achieve stuff.