/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>8585422
Not necessarily. And I'm kind of joking with the 300 square foot living cubicle. But look at a list like this: uh oh. Retail salesperson, cashier, fast-food prep and service worker, heavy-truck driver....all can easily be made redundant by machines in the next decade or two. You've seen the burger-flipping robots, self-driving trucks, self-checkout and Amazon Go. Millions of workers. And don't forget the normal distribution of IQ - about half the population's at or under an IQ of 100. If we have the capability of replacing these workers with machines, what will they do? They're not gonna be retrained as scientists or engineers, that's for sure. Yes, they could starve to death. I'm not really sure what option there is other than UBI. That doesn't mean I'm not open to hearing other possibilities, I just can't see what other solution there possibly can be, it seems like a natural end-point for a purely capitalist system.