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mattmahoneyfl t1_je6opui wrote

In 1800 most people were farmers. Automation put most of them out of work. And yet we still have full employment. What happened? Why did nobody predict social media influencers?

Technology makes stuff cheaper. The money you save is spent on other stuff. That spending creates new jobs.

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JustinianIV t1_je76p9l wrote

The counter-argument here is that in any industry, you can the replace humans as the workers (assuming robotics will eventually catch up). So while the farmers could have moved to the city to work in a factory before, this time around the farmer will get to the city and find all the jobs there are also done by AI.

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artix111 t1_je78xm0 wrote

Yeah, people can’t and won’t be able to comprehend how a likely/possible future will look like.

We mass-produced things in billions so far, we will do so with AI systems to and with robots that run on these systems. We won’t need to do any digital work, we will likely not need to do any physical work besides the one for ourselves… even there AI will help.

I have no idea when, but machines will be able to do a lot of jobs better with how advanced we got with creating voices, images, videos, text - machines will just get software installed that will make them do any job better than humans ever could in 1/10000 of the time for digital ideas and 1/10 of the time in physical work.

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VetusMortis_Advertus t1_je7bc1d wrote

That's why some (Sam Altman?) Say this will end capitalism. It just have to, when no one have to do anything, people will do things to themselves. Like go live off grid. Start a cult or i don't know. Go plant trees. Things will get wild for sure

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Dreason8 t1_je819pb wrote

FFS I'm tired of hearing this argument...

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