I believe even customer service jobs are not immune to technological unemployment. I see no reason why a modernized automat couldn't replace most of the food service industry. And why couldn't an upgraded Siri replace most customer support workers?
The problem is when company owners replace human laborers with computerized laborers. CEOs are the ones who see the profits from the increased efficiency and the employees see nothing. This seems fine in a free market system yet if we follow through to the end game, we find incredibly efficient companies owned by a few people, with no human employees. If nobody is employed except CEOs, who will have money to buy their products? Robots can't buy stuff (yet)!
I believe the only solution is to pay people for robot labor. This may seem counter-intuitive, but when society has no income, there's nobody to buy the goods your robots have so diligently created.
Two solutions I've come up with are either a guaranteed minimum income or robot labor profit sharing.
An example of robot labor profit sharing is forming a union of "robot laborers" in which human employees invest in robots and receive the profits their robots generate. It would essentially be employees outsourcing their work to robots and receiving the profits.
One thing is certain. If we don't make significant progress on this solution, in favor of society as a whole, economic inequality will continue to increase until our economy breaks.
I am deeply interested in this topic and would love to hear from anyone who is working to find a solution to this problem.
Just pay everyone to walk away from work, there you go, problem solved, everybody has money buy stuff made by robot. Those socialism European countries got ahead of themselves while works still require diligent human labor. But technically they're ready for robot to take over than other countries where people still work for food.
Robot shall set you free. When selling labor in exchange for food is no long a necessity, People make wealth by having new ideas, designs which robot will implement. When minds are free, It will be a much better world.
The whole social foundation of human after each other for resources is gone. Greedy as a driver to human is no longer effective when facing robot, that changes every philosophy we know in civilization. The animal element in human for the first time is counter productive to survival, that's why this is very shocking and uncomfortable to us when imagine a world full of robot.
As an individual? I'd suggest researching the hardest problems for computer AI to solve, then picking a career in one of those areas. Generally any area to do with creativity and the human condition should remain viable for a long time.
Luckily, programming and design should remain relevant for quite a while.
The problem is when company owners replace human laborers with computerized laborers. CEOs are the ones who see the profits from the increased efficiency and the employees see nothing. This seems fine in a free market system yet if we follow through to the end game, we find incredibly efficient companies owned by a few people, with no human employees. If nobody is employed except CEOs, who will have money to buy their products? Robots can't buy stuff (yet)!
I believe the only solution is to pay people for robot labor. This may seem counter-intuitive, but when society has no income, there's nobody to buy the goods your robots have so diligently created.
Two solutions I've come up with are either a guaranteed minimum income or robot labor profit sharing.
An example of robot labor profit sharing is forming a union of "robot laborers" in which human employees invest in robots and receive the profits their robots generate. It would essentially be employees outsourcing their work to robots and receiving the profits.
One thing is certain. If we don't make significant progress on this solution, in favor of society as a whole, economic inequality will continue to increase until our economy breaks.
I am deeply interested in this topic and would love to hear from anyone who is working to find a solution to this problem.