The Boy Who Cried Robot: A World Without Work

Started by jimmy olsen, June 28, 2015, 12:26:12 AM

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What should we do if automation renders most people permanently unemployed?

Negative Income Tax
26 (52%)
Communist command economy directed by AI
7 (14%)
Purge/sterilize the poor
3 (6%)
The machines will eradicate us, so why worry about unemployment?
7 (14%)
Other, please specify
7 (14%)

Total Members Voted: 49

Valmy

Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Zanza

Selected "Computer Systems Analysts" and that's safe from automation.

MadBurgerMaker

#302
Infosec = "No worries"

21% chance robots will take my job.  I assume it will happen just before they make their move to eradicate all humans.  Either that or I will be enslaved to protect them from the viruses we human scum make in retaliation for the first attacks.   :hmm:

CountDeMoney

I'd like to know exactly how "Technical Writer" can be looking at 89% probability.   It's English, not Mathematics.

HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Zoupa


celedhring


garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

There was no entry for bum, so I tried an old job. Pizza delivery- 98% 🙀
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Ed Anger

I typed in Porn Star and it refused to answer.  :mad:
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Grey Fox

My job is safe. I do the parts, automation can't do.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Savonarola

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Iormlund

I could not select Automation Engineer (the irony).

Went with Industrial Engineer: 2.9%.

Monoriu


Valmy

Electrical Engineer - 10%

Percentages seem pulled from a robot's ass.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."