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<blockquote data-quote="yeshuaslavejeff" data-source="post: 71871493" data-attributes="member: 96665"><p><a href="http://peakoil.com/forums/fully-automated-combat-robots-pt-2-t73151-40.html" target="_blank">Fully Automated Combat Robots Pt. 2 : Geopolitics & Global Economics - Page 3 - Peak Oil News and Message Boards</a></p><p></p><p>"</p><p>The good news is that the robot apocalypse hasn’t arrived just yet. Despite a steady stream of alarming headlines about clever computers gobbling up our jobs, the economic data suggests that automation isn’t happening on a large scale. The bad news is that if it does, it will produce a level of inequality that will make present-day America look like an egalitarian utopia by comparison.</p><p></p><p>The real threat posed by robots isn’t that they will become evil and kill us all, which is what keeps Elon Musk up at night – it’s that they will amplify economic disparities to such an extreme that life will become, quite literally, unlivable for the vast majority. A robot tax may or may not be a useful policy tool for averting this scenario. But it’s a good starting point for an important conversation. Mass automation presents a serious political problem – one that demands a serious political solution.</p><p></p><p>What’s different this time is the possibility that technology will become so sophisticated that there won’t be anything left for humans to do. Instead of merely transforming work, technology might begin to eliminate it. Instead of making it possible to create more wealth with less labor, automation might make it possible to create more wealth without labor.</p><p></p><p>What’s so bad about wealth without labor? It depends on who owns the wealth. Technology has made workers more productive, but the profits have trickled up, not down. Productivity increased by 80.4% between 1973 and 2011, but the real hourly compensation of the median worker went up by only 10.7%."</p><p></p><p>Found in searching: </p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=robots+working+as+secretaries&num=100&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl0prB6OzWAhXCqVQKHTpnBBkQ_AUIBQ" target="_blank">robots working as secretaries - Google Search</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yeshuaslavejeff, post: 71871493, member: 96665"] [URL="http://peakoil.com/forums/fully-automated-combat-robots-pt-2-t73151-40.html"]Fully Automated Combat Robots Pt. 2 : Geopolitics & Global Economics - Page 3 - Peak Oil News and Message Boards[/URL] " The good news is that the robot apocalypse hasn’t arrived just yet. Despite a steady stream of alarming headlines about clever computers gobbling up our jobs, the economic data suggests that automation isn’t happening on a large scale. The bad news is that if it does, it will produce a level of inequality that will make present-day America look like an egalitarian utopia by comparison. The real threat posed by robots isn’t that they will become evil and kill us all, which is what keeps Elon Musk up at night – it’s that they will amplify economic disparities to such an extreme that life will become, quite literally, unlivable for the vast majority. A robot tax may or may not be a useful policy tool for averting this scenario. But it’s a good starting point for an important conversation. Mass automation presents a serious political problem – one that demands a serious political solution. What’s different this time is the possibility that technology will become so sophisticated that there won’t be anything left for humans to do. Instead of merely transforming work, technology might begin to eliminate it. Instead of making it possible to create more wealth with less labor, automation might make it possible to create more wealth without labor. What’s so bad about wealth without labor? It depends on who owns the wealth. Technology has made workers more productive, but the profits have trickled up, not down. Productivity increased by 80.4% between 1973 and 2011, but the real hourly compensation of the median worker went up by only 10.7%." Found in searching: [URL="https://www.google.com/search?q=robots+working+as+secretaries&num=100&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl0prB6OzWAhXCqVQKHTpnBBkQ_AUIBQ"]robots working as secretaries - Google Search[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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