Evil minds sink our life, technology should free us from the burden of work, they should as Bill Gates said, pay taxes on their benefits to subsidize the surplus labor until our demise

The technology was invented using funding that was secured with the promise that the technology would make manual processes automated and therefore cheaper.

That premise alone disproves the assumption that technology will usher in a workless utopia.

If i employ 100 factory workers and i spend 2 million dollars on a robotic assembler, I’m not going to continue paying those 100 factory workers. Why else would i spend 2 million dollars?

Its true the displacement of human labor is a hole in the plan. All the theoretical frameworks account for this through reskilling and repurposing that human labor into new jobs created around maintaining or building the technology. That’s not overnight though and the transformation is painful.

Although I’m not convinced it’s even true. It’s a curious problem for sure.

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