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Originally Posted by JesseK
As for the net shift of jobs -- well, that's a tough one to answer. Is the world motivated enough to learn what it would take to fullfill those jobs? Given that we're in FIRST, we apparently don't think so.
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The proper motivation is to remove all incentive to remain unemployed/undereducated/unmotivated/on the dole after (insert reason here) caused people any occupational heartache (or if people never had an occupation to begin with).
Simultaneously, resources previously wasted to keep people unemployed/undereducated/unmotivated/on the dole should be shifted to providing more skilled employment, educational, motivational, and uplifting opportunities to all.
Raise the bar...and simultaneously cut away the lower one many in society currently cling to, so they
have to jump to the higher bar. There's your motivation and incentive right there.
Yes, cruel and heartless, I know.
If that doesn't work, you can always tell people the best way to prepare themselves to survive the impending robot takeover of Earth is to go to college so the human race can collectively outthink them.
To stay on topic (barely) - there's one human occupation I do not want robots to usurp, and that is - the military. The potential for great losses of human life is the only thing keeping the dolts running that show from treating it as one giant taxpayer-funded video game, where if you *lose* you simply put another couple hundred billion dollars' worth of quarters in the machine and start over. Plus there's that whole Skynet thing.
Unfortunately, a lot of the technologies being researched and developed now are intended for that EXACT purpose. They market it as "look at all the lives we'll be saving by moving humans off the battlefield" - a short term benefit, one that totally sidesteps the whole point that they are wasting resources on FIGHTING WARS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Well hey now, what would keep the warmongering idiots running global governments from turning robotic armies against the human population in order to better control them and maintain power over them? That is a future I want no part of, yet it is just those kinds of crackpots who are driving the technology bus...or at least putting gas in the tank.