LeBrok
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The time is coming, within 50-100 years when cheap and ubiquitous robots and automatic production machines will virtually produce everything. Robots will produce all the food we need, clothes, cars, homes, toys, etc; they will clean our homes, cook our food, repair roads, shovel snow and tend gardens, driverless cars will drive us around, driverless trucks, ships and planes will bring goods from around the globe. Our wearable devices will diagnose our health, dispense medication and hospital robots do operations. People won't need to work in manufacturing and service anymore. Perhaps there will be some jobs in politics, creative engineering and justice system for 1% smart and willing, but this is it.
This will be a colossal paradigm shift in our society. Will people get used to this new radically different environment? Will it be good for people and society? Can people fill a day with unimportant things? Will it be healthy for our psyche? Will humanity end in countless pleasuring ourselves with drugs and sex to fill the void?
After all, from don of humankind, we always did work, produced useful stuff for everyday life. As hunter gatherers we gathered firewood, mushrooms, roots and berries. We hunted animals all day long, then cut meat and organs, and fixed skins for clothing. In mean time we had to feed, teach and guard tens of our children in a tribe. We made our weapons to fight other tribes to protect fire and women.
As farmers we had even more long repetitive work around fields, herds and villages, raising even more kids and build fords and castles to fight countless enemies.
It got even busier for us during industrial revolution when we started producing thousands of new things.
Now, this busy production lifestyle, that we got used to in thousands of years, is going to end. End rather abruptly, I might add. People will become completely "useless". At least they would think and feel so.
However, perhaps, maybe, it won't be the end of the world yet? There is a big percentage of population, let's say 50%, who doesn't work already; the kids, people on welfare, retirees, and just the lazy. So, will it be such a drastic change if the rest of society joins in, doing "nothing"? Hell, I'm working many long hours myself, but I have so many hobbies and interest that I could fill more than a day with it. For a change, I would do only the stuff I enjoy all day long. Would it be so bad? Would it psychologically destroy me and kill me? Me and others alike.
Wouldn't it be like having a life of rich people born into the money? We all could enjoy the life they already have. The dream of many comes true.
Perhaps we can get used to it rather quickly, and life will go for thousands of years in constant joy and pleasure like nothing happened? After all, the pursuit of happiness is our natural law guaranteed by many modern constitutions.
Perhaps people will be stubborn and they will keep working along robots, for nothing more but keeping busy and feeling satisfaction from work done?
What will it be?
Will humankind survive?
This will be a colossal paradigm shift in our society. Will people get used to this new radically different environment? Will it be good for people and society? Can people fill a day with unimportant things? Will it be healthy for our psyche? Will humanity end in countless pleasuring ourselves with drugs and sex to fill the void?
After all, from don of humankind, we always did work, produced useful stuff for everyday life. As hunter gatherers we gathered firewood, mushrooms, roots and berries. We hunted animals all day long, then cut meat and organs, and fixed skins for clothing. In mean time we had to feed, teach and guard tens of our children in a tribe. We made our weapons to fight other tribes to protect fire and women.
As farmers we had even more long repetitive work around fields, herds and villages, raising even more kids and build fords and castles to fight countless enemies.
It got even busier for us during industrial revolution when we started producing thousands of new things.
Now, this busy production lifestyle, that we got used to in thousands of years, is going to end. End rather abruptly, I might add. People will become completely "useless". At least they would think and feel so.
However, perhaps, maybe, it won't be the end of the world yet? There is a big percentage of population, let's say 50%, who doesn't work already; the kids, people on welfare, retirees, and just the lazy. So, will it be such a drastic change if the rest of society joins in, doing "nothing"? Hell, I'm working many long hours myself, but I have so many hobbies and interest that I could fill more than a day with it. For a change, I would do only the stuff I enjoy all day long. Would it be so bad? Would it psychologically destroy me and kill me? Me and others alike.
Wouldn't it be like having a life of rich people born into the money? We all could enjoy the life they already have. The dream of many comes true.
Perhaps we can get used to it rather quickly, and life will go for thousands of years in constant joy and pleasure like nothing happened? After all, the pursuit of happiness is our natural law guaranteed by many modern constitutions.
Perhaps people will be stubborn and they will keep working along robots, for nothing more but keeping busy and feeling satisfaction from work done?
What will it be?
Will humankind survive?
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