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Humans Need Not Apply – How Robots Will Take Over the Economy
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hey Mike, if you can teach robots how to nurse Ebola patients, I think I know where they can find work ….
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Fascinating and slightly ominous video. But I wonder if the presumption of cheap energy behind the easy economic victory of bots over human workers will last. What if we get to peak oil and peak natural gas etc and the cost of energy becomes multiples of what it is now. The energy cost of the barista was the heating of the coffee shop that had to be heated for the customers anyway. The energy cost of the bot would become a significant element of the comparison. Maybe it’s still way too small to shift the price balance of the human versus bot comparison.
But for a lot of service jobs the human interaction is a part of what customers are paying for. I got cancer treatment and the nurses were wonderful. I doubt I would have felt that same empathy from a recorded voice coming out of a bot.
there are substantial silicon valley types calling for a ‘living wage’ or other type of helicopter money drop to deal wtih the problem of high structural unemployment resulting from technological progress.
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i haven’t heard any arguments as to how such a ‘living wage’ would be any different that previous disastrous attempts at making sure everyone was taken care of without working using tax payer money.
the problem with this sort of keynsianism is , paradoxically, that it’s intellectual dishonestry prohibits it from going farther.
the profound levels of structural unemployment caused by hyperacceleration of economic productivity are not merely an economic problem and you cannot merely throw money at this problem and hope it sticks—-no more than you can throw land and reservations at native americans to solve the destruction of native american culture.
our society is rapidly changing . our culture is rapidly changing. all of this has to do with our technology.
the solution to potential escalation of social cultural anarchy when people are rendered obsolete is not merely to throw money at them —it is to accept the fact that either anarchy will rule the day or we need MORE order .
order can be brought through various types of centralization of power, but the simplest breakdown is that either government permits fiefdomization through enabling laws that permit more power to religious organizatoins, to corporations, and to to institutions that want more private power over their members. OR government can try and take it upon itself to embrace more powerful role over its citizens.
either there will be more power over people, or the ‘individual’ and smaller units of society where mass unempoyment and mass UNEMPLOYEABILITY, will result in more or less breakdown of the plyable social system we have now, and we will devolve to neo-feudalism with fenced off neighborhoods for those wealthy people that can protect their rental properties, because more and more income will come from renting that which is possessed. including the robots that make the consumables . and the markets and warehouses in which those consumables are created, processed, packaged, priced, and sold.
solving this race to the bottom of a rental caste society is a communal choice issue. and simply throwing money at it is not nearly enough in the way of taking control of the situation to even attempt to do anythign about it. then again, the situation might ultimately not be ‘controllable’.
some people talk about this inevitable loss of control over our economic models as a ‘singularity’ where productivity escalates so quickly as to render economic power into a select few companies that control the new auto-topia where robots do almost everything, and humans at large are either part of the membership of those corporations, or other elite groups controlling the productivity of the globalized state—-or they are part of the masses.
in that scnario, the historical patterns of violence where a few well supplied rebel groups can accomplish a substantial amount of damage, will itself encounter the new wave of robotic drone weapons that not only can use ‘targeted’ killing more effectively, but that are FAR better than mercenaries private guards and paramilitary at covering up propaganda style violence that is used to quell dissent.
and at the same time the robot factories can always jack up production to provide some free stuff to people to quiet them down for a time if and when things do get hairy.
the so called freedom fighters best chance is to instigate some global crisis ,world war or something else to destroy the unstoppable techno-juggernaut.
something like snake bliskins response in escape from LA. which was horrible compared to escape from new york. but still , it’s snake bliskin.
It’s a bit ironic to hear that silicon valley types are fretting about living wages seeing as we now know that the icons of silicon valley illegally conspired to keep wages down. Do the same silicon valley types to whom you refer bother to excoriate horrible snob Steve Jobs and the others who did this? Why do I find that notion unlikely? Why do I suspect that they want to have their unblemished false icons and simultaneously spout against the things those icons did and do without ever associating those things with their icons.
Daniele Ganser is a swiss historian and peace researcher. His publications are e.g. about NATO’s secret army, Operation Gladio, 9/11 and peak oil. Tommy Hansen, who is a Danish journalist and founder of the free21.org-project about authentic journalism, met Ganser in his Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research in Basel, Switzerland.