Interesting video on post scarcity society

[Gingerbread Demon]

I found this guy's videos by chance and he's got a ton of stuff I like. This one caught my attention.

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He has a lot of stuff on things like spaceflight, warp drive and other topics.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

You can't just post a 40-minute long video as the premise of your thread and expect others to do all the work. You have to give people a direction for the discussion to go in. Do you have anything to say about the conclusions reached in the video about post-scarcity societies, or are you just waiting for someone else to speak up for you? Take the initiative and lead the conversation.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I do......... Sorry Locutus I had to process. Other things happened while posting too sorry.

Having thought about the video his points about automation and how that would reduce the cost of items i find interesting. But how far do we take this process as a society. Do we have a totally automated manufacturing process that just relies on a design that is made for us by machines removing the human component altogether or do we have a more even 50/50 process where humans do more work and the robots do the other half of the work we can't? How far do you take that, and if you do go all the way what happens to those people now out of a job?

There's a real risk of automation making people semi redundant imho.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

That's been happening since the 1700's at least.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

That's been happening since the 1700's at least.

I know..

"Workers whose lives were threatened by automation threw their wooden shows called sabot into the machines to stop them working" hence the word "sabotage" Lt. Valeris......

Sorry had to quote that. haha.

But yeah it's been happening since then but we now are at a point where nearly everything commonplace can be done by a machine, faster and cheaper then a human.

 

[Leviathan]

Soon the great Machine Hegemony shall rule and humans will be ground into a fine paste for lubricant. Heady days ahead. Can't wait.