While letting machines do all the heavy lifting for us
sounds like my kind of place, we need to think about the consequences first. Many
of the tasks robots will be expected to perform would be low income, hard labor
work. Driving, cooking, and other jobs that are filled largely by people who
cannot, or are in the process of gaining higher education. Taking away those
jobs would create a critical gap in people’s ability to advance within society.
These people would lose access to the work they are qualified for, lose the
income necessary to pay for education to gain other qualifications, and leave many
without anything to do. They would change from the ones maintaining the
foundations of our country to a massive drain of resources as we try to figure
out what to do with all these people who are suddenly unqualified for any
legitimate work. Before we turn these jobs over to our future robot overlords,
we need to find a solution to the problems it’s going to create.
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