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kyle4623 t1_ivrjzr6 wrote

Reply to comment by NortWind in A study found that people perceive that robots are replacing human jobs at a greater rate than they actually are. Only 14% of workers say they’ve had their job replaced by a robot. Workers who had been supplanted by a robot estimated that 47% of all jobs have been lost to robots. by Brave_Cycle_8745

John deer just revealed an automated tractor this year. Just think, buy the land, tractor and seed and it maintains itself!

We should embrace automation. Why delay the progress? We also need to do real work on social support systems. I'm not offering solutions but ignoring the bigger issue is the worst option.

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Scrumbled_Uggs t1_ivrrlaa wrote

Yeah but pushing for a lot of automation before implementing social/infrastructural systems that distribute the benefits of said automation to the people whose lives it would be affecting is a great way to bring about a full blown dystopia

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mastelsa t1_ivsh77m wrote

That's what happened during the industrial revolution and there were many worker revolts about it. I'm extremely pessimistic about our ability to learn from the past--we're going to go forward with automation and we can expect a lot of civil unrest and probably violence until we come out the other side either having settled on some solution like a UBI/vastly increased social safety nets, or having descended fully into corporate feudalism.

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bane5454 t1_ivt6n8u wrote

Scary how we came to the same conclusion that those are the only two real paths forward. I’d like to say that feudalism isn’t the more likely of the two, but I’d be lying

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Icarus367 t1_ivtddsm wrote

Except that even feudalism depends upon the serfs having work to do. What happens when the lord has no need of them because said work is being done by automation?

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