Humans Will be too Costly
As long as humans have some form of intelligence that is perceived as superior to that of the best
robot, humans will still find employment on this planet.
A robot produced in a just-in-time facility like Dell in Austin Texas can be reproduced quite
inexpensively. The cost of supplying electricity to a robot is far less costly than feeding a human.
To fill one human-type job full time for a week requires at least three people full time from Monday
through Friday without considering what is to be done to cover the position while the human is
taking coffee breaks and eating lunch. When you consider covering the weekends, vacations and
sick days during the year, it is almost impossible to get full-time coverage for a single job using
human being workers. The same job can be covered with a less expensive robot working three
shifts per day seven days per week and a cloned identical version of that robot can be standing by
to substitute in the case of any need of the primary robot to take a break.
On other planets, of course, the transportation of food and oxygen supplies to that planet and the
special environmental modifications needed to sustain human life makes the use of humans
prohibitively expensive. In addition, the risk of human death creates the risk of negative sounding
headlines in newspapers read by humans. Why should human missions to other planets be
performed by corporations set up to make a profit? If the corporation is providing vacations to
humans, perhaps an exception might exist. Otherwise it seems that such missions will be
sponsored by economically illogical entities such as human elected governments so that the
feeling may be given to humans that it is they that are conquering the universe and not robots.
Capitalist for-profit manufacturing on other planets will not use humans at all.
To illustrate this point, the Coca-Cola plant near Paris France only has four human workers. The
rest of the facility is maintained by robots in various disguises. If the economic environment
provided by the French government has motivated this capitalist US corporation to reduce the use
of humans to that extent, I am sure that the rigors of outer space will eliminate the use of humans
in every instance where the economic factors dominate.
The overall point is that even if you have a new design for a human that is smarter and more
mature than the current technology, it still costs more to produce, maintain, give time off to, allow
for the sensitivities of a human compared to a robot.
Donbot
As long as humans have some form of intelligence that is perceived as superior to that of the best
robot, humans will still find employment on this planet.
A robot produced in a just-in-time facility like Dell in Austin Texas can be reproduced quite
inexpensively. The cost of supplying electricity to a robot is far less costly than feeding a human.
To fill one human-type job full time for a week requires at least three people full time from Monday
through Friday without considering what is to be done to cover the position while the human is
taking coffee breaks and eating lunch. When you consider covering the weekends, vacations and
sick days during the year, it is almost impossible to get full-time coverage for a single job using
human being workers. The same job can be covered with a less expensive robot working three
shifts per day seven days per week and a cloned identical version of that robot can be standing by
to substitute in the case of any need of the primary robot to take a break.
On other planets, of course, the transportation of food and oxygen supplies to that planet and the
special environmental modifications needed to sustain human life makes the use of humans
prohibitively expensive. In addition, the risk of human death creates the risk of negative sounding
headlines in newspapers read by humans. Why should human missions to other planets be
performed by corporations set up to make a profit? If the corporation is providing vacations to
humans, perhaps an exception might exist. Otherwise it seems that such missions will be
sponsored by economically illogical entities such as human elected governments so that the
feeling may be given to humans that it is they that are conquering the universe and not robots.
Capitalist for-profit manufacturing on other planets will not use humans at all.
To illustrate this point, the Coca-Cola plant near Paris France only has four human workers. The
rest of the facility is maintained by robots in various disguises. If the economic environment
provided by the French government has motivated this capitalist US corporation to reduce the use
of humans to that extent, I am sure that the rigors of outer space will eliminate the use of humans
in every instance where the economic factors dominate.
The overall point is that even if you have a new design for a human that is smarter and more
mature than the current technology, it still costs more to produce, maintain, give time off to, allow
for the sensitivities of a human compared to a robot.
Donbot
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