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When Ubergooglecar moves to Europe people are gonna go ballistic and push them off bridges. It's gonna be hilarious to watch them riot and prot st about robots taking thier jobs IRL instead of just in movies.

I mean they throw bricks at Uber cars with people in them right now! Put a johny cab driver in there and they are gonna set them on fire.

Orror I totally agree w/ you but also am sure it's gonna rustle the shit out of a lot of people.

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Originally Posted by Orruar (Post 1969343)

Even the rich realize that they can't enjoy their wealth if the majority of people are desperate due to hunger.

That's why they'll kill you off en masse like was done after the last revolution in automation. You're a fool if you think the people on top of this pyramid are going to throw you scraps when you've outlined your usefulness.

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Originally Posted by Orruar (Post 1969343)

Let's play along with this idea that every single job will be made unnecessary due to technology (won't happen until strong AI, which is further off than most seem to think). We'd still be producing the same (or almost certainly much more) goods as before. Are the rich going to suddenly start consuming 10x as much food so as to cause everyone else to starve? No, we would have revolted long before reaching that point. Even the rich realize that they can't enjoy their wealth if the majority of people are desperate due to hunger. It's why every single wealthy nation on earth has a pretty damn big safety net. I swear you people saw movies like Elysium and said "yeah, that seems like a pretty likely scenario", while completely ignoring the long arc of civilization's growth and particularly the advances made in the past hundred years.

Think about this. In 1790, farmers made up 90% of the labor force. Today, they account for less than 1%. Are we wallowing in poverty with 89% of people starving? No? Do you think perhaps your view of what will happen when technology continues to replace human labor is not based on any rational understanding of how the world actually works?

What goes on in the military often ends up in the civilian sector. Say, the technology the internet runs on. Drones are coming. You know what else i think is coming not too far behind drones? Green, yellow and red zones, just like in Iraq.

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Originally Posted by Big_Japan (Post 1969564)

What in the literal fuck are you talking about? Who was killed off en masse? Did we kill off all the low skilled people and nobody told me about it? Because I've been seeing a lot of whining from poor people lately.

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Originally Posted by Orruar (Post 1969849)

See: the Great Depression

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Originally Posted by Big_Japan (Post 1969957)

See: the Great Depression

I don't know where you learned your history, but perhaps you'd be so kind as to point to the massive deaths of poor people during the great depression?

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Originally Posted by Orruar (Post 1970144)

I don't know where you learned your history, but perhaps you'd be so kind as to point to the massive deaths of poor people during the great depression?

Yeah but we didn't have poor-people-eating robot technology in the 20s. You'll see....

am not sure the economy will fail before the russian nukes come raining down.

about 11 weeks time, by my estimation...

Stop worrying. The lot of you remind me of ruminating depressants. Most of you probably know being constructive and thinking about things you can actually improve or change is the key to happiness. So do that.

Robot took your job? Find a new one. Maybe break a few windows and go behind bars a while if you must.

The other poster is right, but not really. AI and robots won't replace everything. The rich aren't going to feel sorry for the displaced workers and just give hand outs. That may happen in small amounts, but it's not the real reason people will survive. The reason they will is because people aren't given enough credit for overcoming obstacles. People are going to integrate with AI and improve their mind and find new jobs. People are going to change psychologically. AI/robots/etc can't do everything.

If somehow people in 2015 time traveled into 2068 then yes it'd be a problem.