Yeah but how many are car manufacturing robots? They make a shit load of cars in S Korea
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
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What defines a robot? Because from simple mechanisms to a fancy Kuka you have a lot of things.
And what defines a unit of "workforce"? If a single person is replaced by 3 robots, did one unit of workforce get replaced, or do we now have two more "workers"? What if a robot replaces 3 laborers? Compounded by your question of what counts as a robot.
If a postal worker correcting unreadable addresses was replaced by a better OCR algorithm on a server somewhere, were they replaced by a robot or not? Are servers robots?
Exactly: A single worker can perform a great variety of "jobs" for their employer but a robot typically only does one thing. If you replace a human's job with three robots it would throw these statistics way off.
Not only that but a bunch of robots could be enhancing or expanding a human's productivity. So a single person could be performing the work of five by using the assistance of robots.
This could be good in the long term. To best benefit from this technology, we will likely need to implement some form of universal income.
True. It's what keeps me optimistic. If we can get through the decay of the old world intact, there's a world of post-scarcity plenty ahead.
Yeah, I'm optimistic that we'll get there eventually. But the sooner we play our cards right as a civilization, the sooner we'll be able to enjoy the benefits.
Do they pay taxes? Because they should pay taxes
Corpos will do anything besides provide proper socio economic conditions for the population.
The role of the state is to transfer funds from taxpayer to corpos.
No wonder nobody wants to have kids anymore lol