Really astoundingly obvious answer to the “but what if the robots steal our jobs” that people bring up whenever they’re arguing against artificial intelligence technologies for whatever reason;
- We don’t need to have jobs
- Like seriously you’re assuming that modern capitalism is a given for a future technologically-advanced society
- You don’t even need to go full socialist literally just tax companies for the money that they used to be paying employees (and then some because be real tax on wealthy individuals and corporations is always too low) and pay that back to the population as guaranteed basic income
- The whole point of building machines that can do jobs for us is that we now don’t have to do those jobs ourselves, that’s literally the point, and it’s a good thing. It’s only a bad thing when governments refuse to adapt, which is why you need to lobby like hell
(via thrallhouse)
