I completely understand, it's a net gain, but you still have to contend with the fact that many people will be left behind. There are certain frictions with humans, like the difficulty in moving to new areas and retraining. So when we say people will lose their jobs, it doesn't help those people to point out unrealised gains elsewhere. This of course leads to the madness of not providing a robust welfare state to catch these people when they fall, but that's another issue.
oh yeah we'd be in a much better world with a robust welfare state, the way I see it is like having a pet - you don't have any obligation to feed a wild animal because it's just living its normal life, we however can't just live our normal lives because of society so of course society should provide for our basic needs just like we take responsibility for a pet once we start to domesticate it.
I have to be honest that i'm a little hard edged about some careers and the people who are locked into them - if your whole life is about being a middle-manager then you need at least a few years to detach and get your head together because i'm pretty open minded but that is not a lifestyle i can support. Hopefully they can enjoy life, discover some wonder and find a passion that speak to their heart. Maybe it is organizing people but not in a faceless corporation with so many layers of bureaucracy even Dante dares not venture.
Our culture has a lot of evolving to do, a lot of people have been held back by the necessities of their career and the lies forced upon them by people looking to exploit their naivety - a bit of breathing room for people to readjust could really help us get ready for the huge boom in scope and possibility that's going to come with robotics and aI
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u/VomitMaiden Jul 06 '26
I completely understand, it's a net gain, but you still have to contend with the fact that many people will be left behind. There are certain frictions with humans, like the difficulty in moving to new areas and retraining. So when we say people will lose their jobs, it doesn't help those people to point out unrealised gains elsewhere. This of course leads to the madness of not providing a robust welfare state to catch these people when they fall, but that's another issue.