Humans Need Not Apply

[TrilingualZombie]

What do you think about the jobless future when robots replace humans as the main actors of economy? I think it's quite scary.

[DeathBlade/13.666]

Well someone still has to program, design, and build the robots, not to mention maintain and repair them. New job market with growing opportunities.

[Qoco]

There may be new jobs but for every one new job more than that are sacrificed since one piece of technology can do the task of multiple humans. This is more feasible when technology is advancing to replace even itself, like for example how today your phone can do all the things that separate devices did a few years ago. I think that this could result in a decrease in the total human population.

[Skylar1]

So people would only need to work maybe a 20 hour week and get paid just the same as working 40? Sounds like LBJ's great society. Too bad Ronald Regan came along and ruined workers productivity-to-compensation levels for the past 3 decades

[Lightfighter]

Go to school and get into a secure career, kids. The robots can't do everything (yet).

[TrilingualZombie]

The people who are obsessed with technological unemployment are also obsessed with a concept called basic income.

[Kurano]

If that happened, we would finally be able to focus on the major issues, like Pollution and Terrorism.

[Kumagawa]

If we were to come to live in a post scarcity society where all production, including that of energy, is done by robots, the world will be saved.
The base incentive for all humans to work, is to pay for food, among other things. The main cause for unhappiness is the inability to make money, and therefore people dabble into criminality in order to survive.
However, once you have a self sustaining system that does not require any input, churning out resources, and a strong government to allocate everything, then there would be no reason for suffering.
Pollution and terrorism is easily solvable like this too. You pollute? No food allocated to you. You're planning a terrorist attack? No more food. It's perfect.

[Skylar1]

If we were to come to live in a post scarcity society where all production, including that of energy, is done by robots, the world will be saved.
The base incentive for all humans to work, is to pay for food, among other things. The main cause for unhappiness is the inability to make money, and therefore people dabble into criminality in order to survive.

Correct. This senario would be the logical end of a society transition to a communist state.

However, once you have a self sustaining system that does not require any input, churning out resources, and a strong government to allocate everything, then there would be no reason for suffering.
Pollution and terrorism is easily solvable like this too. You pollute? No food allocated to you. You're planning a terrorist attack? No more food. It's perfect.

Not entirely correct. At that level of technological advancement, mental health care will have probably fined-tuned to the point where it would exist somewhat as a less extreme version of Pyscho Pass. Which would make the need for state imposed deprivation as a way of determent obsolete.

[Holocast]

I'm pretty sure I'm at a level where I can build robots.

Maybe I'll be a main contribute to the robot revolution. If so, I'd be set.

More realistically though, if they get robots to start creating robots, then robots will probably take over most of the technology-based jobs and programming.

Would robots be able to have the imagination to create novels and works of art? If not, we'd see an influx of artists/writers and the phrase "starving artist" wouldn't apply any longer. Then again, if robots were capable of doing that, then that's more fields that would be closed to humans.

Either way personally, I'd end up disconnecting from society and go live on a mountain somewhere in India and create my own self-sustainable living environment.