Human Intermediate: Economics Scenarios scenario 02
Elimination of Human Labor
In 1700 everyone had about the same standard of living.
Where there was more food grown, the population was larger.
Then came technology, industrialization, and the rise of the inorganic helper.
After that, the wealth was no longer as equally distributed.
The poor became poor only by comparison to the rich.
As you point out, the rich are only rich because they have “wheels”, be they bicycle or automobile
wheels.
Transportation and communication can be our enemy if we ship jobs overseas to where pay is lower.
But this only forces us to turn to more technology to recover our lead. We need to introduce robots that
will compete with Chinese humans.
At first, the robots themselves will be fabricated in China.
But eventually the robots will build the robots here in the US.
This is because transportation is not free and so local manufacturing is cheaper if the government
doesn’t tax it or otherwise discourage it.
So we are headed for zero employment 100% entrepreneurial society.
You own a few taxis which drive themselves.
You own a Subway franchise which runs itself with robots.
The DJ brings his music computer to the party and plugs it in.
He is providing transportation and rental of his equipment and collecting money for it.
The labor content is very low...the car will drive itself to the occasion and the unit is very lightweight.
You are correct, the system is the solution.
People own, rent out their machines and machines do all of the real work. The accounting is done by
having your machine talk to my machine via wireless communication much as we would have my
secretary talk to your secretary in the past.
The only remaining function of the human is motivation, intention, drive, desire, etc.
All work is accomplished by the machines.
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Elimination of Human Labor
In 1700 everyone had about the same standard of living.
Where there was more food grown, the population was larger.
Then came technology, industrialization, and the rise of the inorganic helper.
After that, the wealth was no longer as equally distributed.
The poor became poor only by comparison to the rich.
As you point out, the rich are only rich because they have “wheels”, be they bicycle or automobile
wheels.
Transportation and communication can be our enemy if we ship jobs overseas to where pay is lower.
But this only forces us to turn to more technology to recover our lead. We need to introduce robots that
will compete with Chinese humans.
At first, the robots themselves will be fabricated in China.
But eventually the robots will build the robots here in the US.
This is because transportation is not free and so local manufacturing is cheaper if the government
doesn’t tax it or otherwise discourage it.
So we are headed for zero employment 100% entrepreneurial society.
You own a few taxis which drive themselves.
You own a Subway franchise which runs itself with robots.
The DJ brings his music computer to the party and plugs it in.
He is providing transportation and rental of his equipment and collecting money for it.
The labor content is very low...the car will drive itself to the occasion and the unit is very lightweight.
You are correct, the system is the solution.
People own, rent out their machines and machines do all of the real work. The accounting is done by
having your machine talk to my machine via wireless communication much as we would have my
secretary talk to your secretary in the past.
The only remaining function of the human is motivation, intention, drive, desire, etc.
All work is accomplished by the machines.
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