jiggles wrote:I've been thinking a lot lately about the greater impact of employing androids. When it becomes so much more efficient, safe and cost-effective to automate all unskilled jobs, what happens to everyone in those roles? How will it ever be possible to maintain such a high level of unemployment?
Or, if we create artificial superintelligence, and all roles are automated do we just... retire? Forget economy entirely and everyone just lives in leisure? Does the superintelligence condemn us to extinction in the same way?
It will never happen as humans are too selfish and will go mad at somebody "having it easy!" but with mass automation and/or androids and robots doing all the work, why would we need to employ people in unskilled jobs? If machines are planting, growing, harvesting and distributing food, why should anybody pay for it?
People might look at it as people being lazy, but imagine if human life was a journey of learning and leisure with no horrible jobs to do and no risk of being homeless or starving. Those who wanted to work could do so out of choice and everyone else could just live their lives the way they wanted.
Or more likely, we will all end up enslaved by Skynet. Not because it needs slaves but just because it wants to make us miserable.