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Originally Posted by Crich
With robotics and artificial intelligence on the rise how far do you think we are away from humans not having to work?
There are many different reasons for people to work - in addition to money, many jobs give people self-esteem, socialisation, and other benefits as well as just money.
Depending how you define "work", there are many people who can stop working today - because they're content to live on various combinations of charity/welfare/savings/etc.
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Originally Posted by Crich
If robots take all our jobs what jobs will remain for humans?
It's a nonsense statistic. Robots (and other tools) increase human productivity, and increase human wealth, not reduce it.
There have been many tools that have been invented for literally millions of years which make people more productive, and there are now more jobs on the planet with more prosperity on the planet than ever before.
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Originally Posted by Sir Huntington
The main question is what's gonna happen to all the people who do driving for a living of any type. It's supposed to be a huge workforce for adult men in the US that will be out of work in a decade or two. That's gonna be a big one for the US workforce to recover from with the info I've gotten.
Yah - there's a good chance that will be a big change. Over the last 200years, the US workforce has changed from ~90% farmers to ~2% farmers. The consequence hasn't been "farmers are unemployed" but rather, "development of a huge range of new jobs that weren't even imagined 20 years ago, let alone 200 years ago".