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Originally Posted by pip08456
In a future world where automation means there is no need of human employees (or very few jobs where needed) how is the population to survive?
No money = no food on the table. No work = no money. Catch 22.
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
No, no, you don't understand: It will be a wonderful socialist utopia where everybody has an equal amount of money doled out by the state, there'll just be one type of car and everybody gets one and nobody will need to work.  |
There will need to be an answer to this problem though. Even if we develop new industries that can't easily be automated the rate of change will be drastic and a lot of people will lose their jobs. It will even more dramatic if the money from these services funnel into a handful of companies.