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gachamyte t1_j0l5xkg wrote

Reply to comment by Coachtzu in Why the future of human workforce is manual labour by Primary-Food6413

This is true and and will become more true with time. My experience within different work fields says that most of human labor will be at the request of humans. More like a gig work app thing that pings you for labor temp or long term based on the terms of your contract. These contracts will dictate your progression. Maybe your life moving forward and your ability to reproduce. Unless something or an event really shakes things up in the future.

The labor market and labor force is pretty much akin to wage slavery and orchestrated to funnel all ability for change to those already in control.

It’s not mining diamonds or oil rigs labor. It’s standing with a flag or directly interacting with humans like customer care. The true disconnect of the “elite” will come to fruition when humans are worth less than a robot. Once the cost scenario says that humans won’t produce they fully become the product. Your life is already forfeit to a market and global power so the next step is clear.

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Coachtzu t1_j0ldxt5 wrote

I largely agree with you, though I think there are a few points I'm not as sure about. The first is that I think we are already seeing humans struggle to retain their ability to interact with live humans in the age of ever-expanding technology. My own experience as a somewhat angst young man in the workforce was that it was actually incredibly beneficial to have to learn how to socialize with people different from myself if I wanted to pay rent. I fear, that if we remove that pressure, there are a solid number of young people who would retreat behind a screen or into a virtual environment and never risk the perils that comes with social interaction. I used to coach basketball, and I was seeing it towards the end of my time in that field (around 2018) where kids had a harder time confronting and dealing with conflict face to face compared to when I started in 2010. I had a lot more breaking up of physical fights in practice, but a lot more cohesion than I did at the end.

The second is that we are barreling towards a point where humans are the product like you said, which I don't necessarily see as entirely bad if handled as getting paid to help other humans, but that likely won't happen. The big issue from a practical sense as well is that as we remove humans from the workforce, they will progressively lose the ability to purchase the product unless we give them purchasing power somehow.

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