>>4828290my economical situation has nothing to do with machines at the moment, and i never said it did
in fact, i've got some training and education that i think will remain pretty untouched by machines for the foreseeable future
im lucky enough to have a pretty stable life
and i'm not scared of machines
machines are great
if we can solve our energy problem and improve our machines theres so much work that just doesn't need to be done by us, and we can refocus that time and energy onto things that we WANT
im saying what we've got going right now can't handle the progress technology is making, you know on a grand scale
you know like beyond myself
i really don't get why "it will sort itself out" is supposed to be good enough
WHAT new jobs? it takes a whole lot fewer people to maintain and repair a machine than the machine replaces, especially with machine learning and neural networks and all this crazy scifi shit
if you dont want millions and millions of people starving to death for no reason, there's got to be some kind of change to how we handle the economic system
but after reading some of your other posts maybe you do want millions of people starving to death for no reason so I guess we're just working with entirely different ideas of what a society is actually for
>>4828296oh i know, that was supposed to be an example of how absurd the situation is, that somehow having less work to do and better technology is a crisis that will disrupt a ton of lives
i think everyone becoming less hyper specialized is probably a good response, why NOT train as many people as possible to do as many things as possible with the extra wealth we'll generate with better technology, create a more flexible and less brittle economic system, besides of course the answer of because taxes are bad etc
idk its pretty interesting as a leftist to see where this goes, it feels like the first big turning point in my lifetime
