Robots are leaving the factory floor and heading for your desk – and your job
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#2if everything gets replaced by bots, how will the economy run given that much of it is because of employees getting paid and in turn spending that money?
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#3Someone has to program those robots.
Re: Robots are leaving the factory floor and heading for your desk – and your job
#4Someone has to program those robots.
Probably not the secretary, accountant or dispatcher whom they replace. And for every programmer created to develop for these devices, there will be 10, 100, even 1,000 desk jobs which will vanish.
The best and brightest will find jobs as these programmers; the rest will be left to fend for themselves - to find another meaningless job with a tiny wage, so they can live.
This, as something of a tangent, is why I support basic income.
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#5if everything gets replaced by bots, how will the economy run given that much of it is because of employees getting paid and in turn spending that money?
More Bullshit Jobs.
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#6if everything gets replaced by bots, how will the economy run given that much of it is because of employees getting paid and in turn spending that money?
This is a major question that has no real answer but can potentially be a big problem. Robots and "the future" are great and all but what is in store for a society that has no work/purpose to do? Some of this stuff I feel requires a closer look with regulation and maybe some checks in morality and weighing what's the greater good.
CGP Grey had a decent video explaining some of the points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
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#7Someone has to program those robots.
Someone has to program a specific task for a specific robot. Then that can be copied over almost instantly all over the world to thousands or more physical robots.
Making a copy of the software for a robot can be considered as cheap as sending an e-mail. Hardware is hard, but that might change too in the near future.
I'd be interested in how the economics will work, since we already sometimes have silly pricing for software/music/eBooks. Piracy/DRM for robots?
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#8if everything gets replaced by bots, how will the economy run given that much of it is because of employees getting paid and in turn spending that money?
They'll start figuring out ways to kill people or otherwise prevent the next generation of non-capitalist class people from being born.
Compulsory sterilization for those unable to fulfill the needs of their children is a thing even today.
Well, that or we could destroy capitalism as we know it. But only dirty socialists want that to happen here on Hacker News.
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#9> But they note that the boundaries of what counts as routine and non-routine are moving all the time. It was once thought that driving was a skill so complex it couldn’t be automated only to see it turned on its head by Google and others.
What happens when programming becomes routine? I expect there will be a very scary moment when we all realize that someone with the right resources has discovered the right learning algorithm, before all of us plebes die.
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#10Someone has to program those robots.
Probably not the secretary, accountant or dispatcher whom they replace. And for every programmer created to develop for these devices, there will be 10, 100, even 1,000 desk jobs which will vanish. The best and brightest will find jobs as these programmers; the rest will be left to fend for themselves - to find another meaningless job with a tiny wage, so they can live. This, as something of a tangent, is why I suppo…
This is mainly why I write software...