The very idea of no jobs is ludicrous. When labor prices get very low due to technological changes, people become servants. The idea that robots will replace servants is also ludicrous. People have servants because it’s a high-status thing to order people around. They’ll always be a market for it.
Hey, if I could replace people with that robot from Rocky IV i would
As smart as some of these people are.. they could benefit from an Economics class. Robots are great...but when you reduce labor to 0 cost, it will drive the cost of the products / services down as well... which means you have to sell more to maintain sales / profit levels... but.. since everyone is being replaced by computers... there is no one to buy the hamburger or haircut or robot picked lettuce... so while it is neat to think about ... in reality, over the long term... robots are not going to replace everyone. With that said.. we don’t need to be importing a bunch of low skilled labor into this country..because if they are ever not able to eat... they could start burning things... then we lose all the robots...
By the same token, people have horses because they are a high-status thing to have. These so-called "horseless carriages" will never really catch on!
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QUESTION: Just how big is the market for human servants? I mean, how many people today in America are working as actual domestics? And whom would you rather have cleaning your toilets, sorting your undies, or drawing your bath? A human servant (who might be secretly spitting into your food, inadvertently sneezing onto your bedsheets, unthinkingly picking his nose while he folds the napkins)? Or a gleaming android?
Actually, the robotic servants will often be so unobtrusive (e.g., self-cleaning toilets, "intelligent" washing machines, built-in water temperature regulators, etc.) that you won't even be aware of them. Things will seem to happen "by magic."
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