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What I WOULD do is move to a place with the lowest possible cost of living and become a bartender or something equally undemanding.
Struggle to re-establish my economic viability before my marriage collapsed under a pile of unpaid bills. Worst case scenario I'd slam my car into a bridge piling at a hundred and twenty miles an hour knowing my life insurance policy would cover the mortgage and my son's college education. Edit: oh wait...is this a thought experiment where capitalism isn't a thing anymore?
I was thinking more along the lines of "Turn to a life of crime." But your solution also has merit.
I definitely wouldn't put all my fears, hopes, and dreams in to a vote for a politician who promises to bring my job back. What I WOULD do is move to a place with the lowest possible cost of living and become a bartender or something equally undemanding.
I definitely wouldn't put all my fears, hopes, and dreams in to a vote for a politician who promises to bring my job back. What I WOULD do is move to a place with the lowest possible cost of living and become a bartender or something equally undemanding.
Decent pay, and there's lots of jobs everywhere, so I could have a low cost of living.
I definitely wouldn't put all my fears, hopes, and dreams in to a vote for a politician who promises to bring my job back. What I WOULD do is move to a place with the lowest possible cost of living and become a bartender or something equally undemanding.
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In that case it is pointless to speculate, a future like that will be so unlike our present that speculation is roughly where science fiction is.
Not really, this is the position middle america finds itself in. Different population groups retrain at different speeds.
The one I'm familiar with is a cosmology one, where because of the speed of the increase of expansion of the universe everything literally gets torn apart.
Applied to the work situation it means a future roughly related to the plot of 'Accelerando', and once we hit that kind of rate-of-change all bets are off in the most literal sense.
I definitely wouldn't put all my fears, hopes, and dreams in to a vote for a politician who promises to bring my job back. What I WOULD do is move to a place with the lowest possible cost of living and become a bartender or something equally undemanding.
In a world where a skilled worker (such as yourself) resorts to that, who are your customers at the bar and how do they make money to pay their tab?
And where is the robot bartender in this scenario?