Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks (Post 21114469)

The most vulnerable jobs in regard to "losing them to robots" are the assembly-line jobs: Work that does not require much judgment. As a matter of fact most of the western workers are allready replaced by robots: The Asian workforce! The percentage of workers still involved in manufacturing in, for example, America is only about 10%. The shift of assembly-line labor to developing countries did not lead to mass unemployment.

Conclussion: if robot labor leads to mass unemployment it will be mass unemployment in Asia...

Introducing UBI because of mass unemployment caused by robots is just totally plucked out of thin air.

Originally Posted by crucifissio (Post 21114958)

asian workers are still cheaper than robots...western ones are not...

there has never been a time like this in history...robots used to be expensive and complicated to program...the new robots out there cost 1 western yearly salary total and literally learn by watching you work...

what is even more scary is software...AI will replace humans much more than robots ever could...right now software is trading on wall street and not humans...

there is no coming back from this one...

Originally Posted by woj (Post 21114991)

cost of robots is going down, and wages are going up over time, so eventually it will drop below cost of labor, even in poor countries...

so what Struggle4Bucks pointed out makes sense, if the predictions are true, countries whose economies are based on manufacturing will be effected first and to greater extent than "service" economies...

Originally Posted by Rochard (Post 21110053)

I've given this some thought. One of the things that has always amazed me is world population numbers.

I do see a time where eventually there will be less and less jobs. You can argue that there will always be a need for a human somewhere along the line, but eventually that will become less and less. Eventually they will be able to create robots that can do everything we can do. Truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, delivery drivers, bus drivers.... Will no longer have jobs. Same with food prep and serving - Push a button and a hamburger comes out. I watched a video the other day where a robot laid two thousand bricks in two hours for the foundation of a house.

I think eventually some people will have some kind of "universal income" but also think that companies will be required by law to have a certain amount of employees if only just to give us something to do.

Originally Posted by Wizzo (Post 21109567)

Perhaps a good name for this experiment would be the Soviet Union? :winkwink:

Originally Posted by Look Chang (Post 21115015)

The future of mankind is worrying :helpme

http://www.allthingsmike.com/Cultura...obots/bar4.jpg

Originally Posted by DrJsn (Post 21117454)

Did you guys watch the movie Wall-E? All the humans are fat slobs who lay around in their floating movable chairs drinking their food, while the robots do everything. Somehow I think this a very likely scenario for the future. Lazy humans getting fatter and more dependant on machines to the point where noone works but gets everything free.

Originally Posted by mineistaken (Post 21110032)

fuck no.

Only leftist parasites think it is a god idea.

Originally Posted by ContentPimp (Post 21111097)

Hundred percent agree with you man!
The best way to help people is to teach them to help themselves.
Universal Basic Income will just lead to people being dependent knowing that there will be income that they will receive whether they work their butt off or not.

It is just like the principle of "Sowing and Reaping"
What you work hard in the beginning will give you beneficial roots, in the end.

Originally Posted by JSWENSON (Post 21110809)

People are productive because it's boring as hell to do anything else. Lazy people will be lazy, what value is really added to society by flipping burgers at McDonalds when a robot can do it? Further, it's a small basic income. People will still want nice things and they will work in addition to that but society will focus on shit that actually matters much more if everyone is fed and not out robbing people to afford food.

Originally Posted by MrMaxwell (Post 21125359)

I've seen so many lazy ass fucks here in the states on assistance programs to know what it does. Hell. My (ex) closest friend is a sociopathic mentally disturbed worthless harm causing piece of walking filth and a disgusting useless trouble making hate breeding animal thanks to being a subsidized parasitic piece of shit.
Fuck all of that
It did nothing but exacerbate the symptoms of her mental issues and she should be in prison where her bitch ass belongs but there's NO accountability for these inane morons
NONE
After all the trouble that scum caused for me it even used the legal system to cause me untold hell because it's so use to gaming the system and getting away with everything

I'd rather live under a fucking bridge than go on welfare

Originally Posted by MrMaxwell (Post 21125359)

I've seen so many lazy ass fucks here in the states on assistance programs to know what it does. Hell. My (ex) closest friend is a sociopathic mentally disturbed worthless harm causing piece of walking filth and a disgusting useless trouble making hate breeding animal thanks to being a subsidized parasitic piece of shit.
Fuck all of that
It did nothing but exacerbate the symptoms of her mental issues and she should be in prison where her bitch ass belongs but there's NO accountability for these inane morons
NONE
After all the trouble that scum caused for me it even used the legal system to cause me untold hell because it's so use to gaming the system and getting away with everything

I'd rather live under a fucking bridge than go on welfare