Automation doesn’t mean life has zero cost. Even when it is extremely efficient.
And efficient machines earn for their owners. Not for the unemployed.
Also, efficiency increases the demand and price of resources. Including land.
This is especially true if there is extreme inequality, meaning a minority are benefiting from the savings and increased leverage from efficiency improvements. Increasing their lifestyles, but more significantly and endlessly, their need to compete harder with each other to maintain the value they have.
That self-reinforcing loop is already in full force. It’s just going to cycle faster.
We don’t tend to question that ever present reality in the wild, when we consider other species and individuals of other species.
For good, or ill, the human condition is about to change radically.
gitfan86|1 year ago
Nevermark|1 year ago
And efficient machines earn for their owners. Not for the unemployed.
Also, efficiency increases the demand and price of resources. Including land.
This is especially true if there is extreme inequality, meaning a minority are benefiting from the savings and increased leverage from efficiency improvements. Increasing their lifestyles, but more significantly and endlessly, their need to compete harder with each other to maintain the value they have.
That self-reinforcing loop is already in full force. It’s just going to cycle faster.
We don’t tend to question that ever present reality in the wild, when we consider other species and individuals of other species.
For good, or ill, the human condition is about to change radically.