How would you like to live in an economy where robots do everything that can be predictably programmed in advance, and almost all profits go to the robots’ owners? Meanwhile, human beings do the work that’s unpredictable – odd jobs, on-call projects, fetching and fixing, driving and delivering, tiny tasks needed at any and all hours – and patch together barely enough to live on. Brace yourself. This is the economy we’re now barreling toward.
Robert Reich (via kateoplis)
There would probably still be a sliver of people who design, program and maintain those robots.
As well as providing services to ultra-wealthy robots’ owners who would value inefficient human-work as a luxury unattainable to most (thinking of multilingual mandarin-speaking NYC nannies who make six figures).
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