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Originally Posted by Swish
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That outsourcing though. You'll have 350 million people in a country with very little to do. Win/win for big businesses...who cares if people are starving as long as its not hurting the bottom line.
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Let's play along with this idea that every single job will be made unnecessary due to technology (won't happen until strong AI, which is further off than most seem to think). We'd still be producing the same (or almost certainly much more) goods as before. Are the rich going to suddenly start consuming 10x as much food so as to cause everyone else to starve? No, we would have revolted long before reaching that point. Even the rich realize that they can't enjoy their wealth if the majority of people are desperate due to hunger. It's why every single wealthy nation on earth has a pretty damn big safety net. I swear you people saw movies like Elysium and said "yeah, that seems like a pretty likely scenario", while completely ignoring the long arc of civilization's growth and particularly the advances made in the past hundred years.
Think about this. In 1790, farmers made up 90% of the labor force. Today, they account for less than 1%. Are we wallowing in poverty with 89% of people starving? No? Do you think perhaps your view of what will happen when technology continues to replace human labor is not based on any rational understanding of how the world actually works?