Giving Universal Basic Income is unsustainable because you still need someone willing and able to produce goods and services cheap enough so that UBI is worth something. Over the past two years we saw how even a minimal monthly check from the government caused massive labor shortages that is driving up inflation.
Perhaps one day robots and automation will replace thr need for people to work, but it won't be anytime soon. Even Amazon is pushing the tech, and they still need hundreds of thousands of employees to work in warehouses and as drivers.
Perhaps one day robots and automation will replace thr need for people to work, but it won't be anytime soon. Even Amazon is pushing the tech, and they still need hundreds of thousands of employees to work in warehouses and as drivers.
I’m sorry, did I say this would happen tomorrow? Oh never mind, I said the process would take years. Did you know that Amazon estimates that in less than 10 years, it will not need a single human human being to fulfill and ship an order? Think tanks such as the World Economic Forum estimate that by 2030, 50% of the jobs today will have been made obsolete by AI. By 2040, 80% of the jobs will be obsolete. In China, there are warehouses in operation today that don’t require humans to fulfill an order.
This isn’t some distant-future fantasy, it is happening right now and the globalists are preparing humanity for a future where we are rendered obsolete.
No, I think it will be measured in decades. The estimates for robots/AI are constantly shifting. It used to be 2020, now it's 2030. It'll always be "just over the horizon." That's hopium for shareholder of Amazon or whoever, that want to believe they'll someday be even more profitable, thus justifying their sky high stock price.
I don't trust much of any information coming out of China. Any kind of warehouse operating on robots alone is probably just a political stunt to show off technology. In a country with a billion plus people, I doubt that irs more cost efficient to replace warehouse workers with robots.
Even when these businesses with big centralized operations move to complete automation, there is still everyone down the line, like small businesses or retail shops that are unlikely to replace humans anytime soon. I don't see how robots will ever replace plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. They're already in such high demand as it is right now.
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