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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
How are we becoming less valuable?
The standard of living of a an average US citizen is far better today than the standard of living of a Plantation owner in 1850. That is the result of the industrial revolution and technological revolution.
http://www.businessinsider.com/drive...-tesla-2017-11
Yes, self driving vehicles will eliminate many jobs for drivers. But it will also save us $300 billion in labor costs and also make the roads much safer. The driver needs to develop new skills, but he is being given 2-3 years warning before this really begins to bite. Embrace the change, otherwise you will be crushed by it. |
It's unrealistic to expect drivers to re-skill and become AI programmers. That sort of skill takes years to master and not everyone has the aptitude.
Value is measured by how much a person contributes to the economy through what they can produce or how they can provide service. A person who is out of work due to robots, receiving a basic income or not, is not contributing anything therefore not valuable. This is why people who work in finance or business or medicine get paid more than artists and musicians or history professors (lol) who do not contribute much to the economy. As robots replace these jobs which are traditionally seen as valuable by what they can produce or provide service, then the robots become more valuable than the humans. A robot doctor would be more valuable than a human history professor, for example.
A woman who does not have to cook or clean for her husband is also less valuable to the husband than a robot which does the job instead. This is measuring value by how much she contributes to the household. This is the biblical measure of value, the proverbs 31 woman who is always busy and producing things. If she cannot do anything because the robot is doing it for her, then she is not valuable according to proverbs 31. In that case she becomes a burden. Now a woman who cannot cook or clean or do anything else is only good for pleasure, and such a woman is being replaced by robots too with the development of mechanical vaginas. Now that's one area which I don't understand why a man would want to replace a woman with a machine.