Bingo.... that is the reason that I said above that you have to define progress because, like you, I thnk there is a lot of arguing the dfference between progress and change.
That is a utopian view. The more likely outcome is that the majority of the world returns to being kicked out of the ownership class and are basically serfs beholden to whom ever controls the A.I.
This has been happening for a long time. Here is video of a BMW being made (the Ford video was way longer with a lot of other propaganda).
Was listening to NPR Saturday driving around and they were talking wtih a guy (can't remember his name) who works at a large airport. Advised baggage will be totally automated wtihin a decade or two including the transport by autonomous vehicles routed most efficiently by some kind of AI.
There is no such thing as post-scarcity. You could lower the labor costs, but raw materials, commodities, and etc. are always going to be scarce.
I'd argue the evolution of money is already happening. It's called Bitcoin. Old men can shake their fist at the sky, but it's happening.
It's a luxury for you to live in a country of relative law and order and based on Christian principles. The Founders knew human nature and built that into our laws - you and I have a sense of fair play because of that and it's easy to assume the rest of the world feels that way.
True.
The jobless world will ultimately be followed by a spasm of violence IMO. Think French Revolution. I don't believe that people will be happy with subsistence and I think there are too many people to support earning much extra in a gig economy.
How will you spend your Bitcoin if they just throttle your ability to access it?
And that's the dystopian view. Personally, I think your scenario is more likely. I'm just offering that it's not guaranteed.
And they might affect each other. One way to frame the author's argument, is to remind economists of their favorite sayings: there is no such thing as a free lunch and everything is a tradeoff.
Yup. That’s why the future is ours!! Let the old f*ucks on here die off with their dirty bills
You silly rabbit. You don't actually SPEND cryptocurrency, you get rich off it by exchanging it for dollars down the road without it actually doing or improving anything. You can't lose.
When the buggy whip makers went out of work, there were car manufacturers you could go work for. You still needed people working jobs. Lots of people. AI isn't changing what you build, it is changing who will build it and it won't just be replacing blue collar work, it will start replacing white collar as well. Your need for a human lawyer will decrease for a whole host of items. Accountants become less necessary. You don't need service workers. Logistics will be moved by programmed robots.
This old f*uck will gladly take any of those dirty old bills anyone wants to dump.
I flipped the switch to your internet access because Bitcoin is seen as a threat to the new order. Good luck exchanging it.
If you have a private wallet you can still access it and send it to other people. The only thing the U.S can do is slow down adoption for U.S. citizens, which would be terrible for the U.S.
When the state provides everything, the individual owns nothing. Good-bye property rights.
As Dan mentioned to Goat up above, you are viewing this through the lens of how the world works now in this country. Any country can be China.
Exactly. And property rights equal freedom.
And for those whose jobs have already been automated and can't afford property? Where were you when millions of UAW jobs were lost?
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Same for pipeline and energy workers thrown out of work, right?
Bitcoin is for everyone. Even for old f%cks with dirty bills. You just pay the price you deserve.
When you can buy a loaf of bread with a Bitcoin, I'll be a convert.
To remain healthy per today's world you have to use Sparkling ice water not ice water from the tap. Black Cherry is the best.
There is no regression of understanding. Only progression. How we deal with that understanding can be progressive or regressive, if we hvae to use those terms.
You need an xhamster account.
There won't be a bunch of idle humans. We will die off. We are still in a phase of human history where we have more kids than we need. Japan's birthrate is falling. China will slow, India will slow, so will the US. Population will decline as it cannot be supported.
There was at least a job you COULD move to. That is the point. Automation isn't evil. Automation that takes away almost every potential job is dangerous though.
The price of the home decreases in Bitcoin. An average house has decreased from costing millions of bitcoin to around 40ish Bitcoin today. You see similar trends in gold (longer time horizon). Harder assets increase in value over time and can purchase more.
I read the other today (because of fossil fuels) it would take around 200 people working 24/7 to produce the amount of energy each of us use in a day. On some level we have limitless energy, now, and there are still plenty of jobs. It's extremely hard to predict the future. Especially, decades out.
The danger of big government, whether we call it a liberal democracy or not, isn't controlling people; it’s making life too easy and too comfortable. And for the majority of us who are not white and male, that push toward a life free of bumps is more profound. This robs individuals of something far more important than property or material goods, it takes away purpose and motivation.
