They won’t cover all jobs or be completely autonomous, but I think they’ll be able to be remotely supervised; with a single experienced plumber managing ~5 or so of them at once.

Depends on your definition of “soon” but I give it 5 years tops. The robots can physically do it, and the “mental” side is advancing so fast right now I can’t keep track of it.

Of course, if every other job is replaced by AI / robots, it doesn’t matter. Nobody will have money to pay the plumber

Reliable robotics is a few years off at most. It’s really just a cost question, and that’s really just a volume question.

“A while” being like 5 years tops

I mean we already see a similar effect strongly in well developed counties. There’s fun stuff to do besides fornciation and courtship, and kids eat into fun time and fun funds, MASSIVEly.

Also, as you stop needing a small army to work a farm, huge families become vanishingly rare.

So just imagine the effect of having mind-blowing robot sex readily available. It’s not that nobody will have babies; so few will bother that the death rate will outpace new births even more than they do now

New Henrietta Lax situation?

They are actually a model for where the general population will head long term, if we are at least allowed enough land to live on.

Most humans won’t have anything to offer the capital / property owners in terms of labor value

Which means they don’t get paid, and can’t buy things

Which kicks the ladder out from under nearly every worker industry, they’re all built to make money from consumers

What’s left after the economy evaporates will be automated, vertical supply chains feeding the whims of the very elite rich.

The rest of us will have no way to participate, nothing of value to trade. But there’ll be so many of us that a new, entirely separate, unregulated economy will form.

It’ll be based around subsistence and low tech survival, as it’ll have to function on materials which the elite capital class have no interest in.

So…. With or without the religious angle, a good life will look a lot like an Amish life

Imagine a real musician being able to even answer that question. Lol

Yeah it’d really suck to be glued to a machine all day, melded with a hive mind

side eye at Reddit banana count

I appreciate your thoughts but do not think you can apply it universally

some people will get a sense of pride form having worked a tough job and gotten a sub-living wage

Others will do the same job, get no gratification from it at all, and dread the prospect of wasting 80% of their waking hours of life doing something they hate

If done effectively, Screens + religion = Fox News

The two are not mutually exclusive

They do actually explain why it works in that article (thanks for the link btw!)

But I can’t imagine thinking that up, understanding it is tricky enough