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Totally. It's so frustrating.
We should, today, be asking the question "What happens when technology has made 90% of the jobs in the country irrelevant?".
We should be embracing the peace, stability, and artistic, creative renaissance that could well await the entire human race. We should usher it in, embrace it and make it happen sooner.
But instead, everyone is getting selfish and fighting to not lose their little thing, their inch of land, their job title, their view.
We should be figuring out how to redistribute the proceeds better, of this wealth machine. How to spread that evenly. How do we get to 100% technological literacy? How could we improve the lives of all in this country and others?
It's the economy. It's the technological revolution. We can't stop that revolution by voting ourselves out of it, but we can definitely lose control of the very few levers that exists that has enough leverage to build a better future.
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We should, today, be asking the question "What happens when technology has made 90% of the jobs in the country irrelevant?".
The obvious answer should be, until we live in a post scarcity environment, we should be working on the technology that will take care of the other 10%. It'll be infinitely harder and require exponentially more human effort to achieve.
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It can go either way: Crowd sourcing, open codes for everything and a base salary for everyone and you'll see volunteering/education and the lot.
Or the ones that have get even more, hold on to the keys of technology like trading algoritms and we cannot catch up, or kill them and get their money to even things out as there's no more gold, it's just numbers on a system.
Probably a mix of the two, but the more we can restrain the have it alls, the better.
Or we can join a virtual country, all ran by computers that negotiates for us. Who do you pay your house rates too then but...who knows...
I understand the selfishness as solidarity is gone. Why give to a charity instead of pot the money in case you lose your job?
Time for an lfgss hard scifi thread perhaps :p
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A conversation I often have with friends - would you hand over the keys to the country to Google rather than leave them with out of touch/self-interested politicians? Clearly Google have plenty of their own self-interest, but at least they'd grasp the challenges facing the world in the next 30 years. I'd love to know what a Google-state would look like... I'm not sure I'd vote for it, but I'd rather Google than 10+ more years of Tory ideological austerity.
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the U.K. solution at the next general election being a Labour/Corbyn vote then?
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At the same time this technology has a massive impact to make education cheaper, improve trading for everyone, and so on and so forth.
But as the current politicians are looking 50 years back instead of 30 years forward the people that need the improvements of technology never reap any benefits.
[though its always more complex otherwise technological determinism would always work]
But if you see Google roll out easier education in deprived areas and here you get cuts and massive school classes it's like WTF is wrong here. Why at least not try to adapt some of this...