I started to notice a intense automation and Artificial Intelligence Investments from companies and that made me wonder, what would happen or what should be done with the people who can’t be trained for a new job and can’t use his current skills to to get a job.

How would he live or what would he do in life? More importantly, what should be done with him to make him useful or at least neutral rather than being a negative on the society?

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
    67·
    1 day ago

    If you’re a sociopath, let them suffer and die slowly, homeless.

    If you’re not a sociopath, and decent, tax the rich and give them a good UBI so they can play and do art or music or video games or what the hell ever.

    Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

    • MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social
      30·
      1 day ago

      Agreed, honestly. Because if you eliminate 60% of the workforce you also eliminate 60% of your customers. And if people aren’t spending money the economy isn’t moving.

      • TauZero@mander.xyz
        131·
        1 day ago

        In theory, the rich can just continue paying off each other spending money on rich people stuff. 80% of the economy consisting of activities like robot-staffed billionaire-owned construction companies making and selling super-yachts to oil billionaires, who made their fortune selling fuel to space tourism companies ferrying billionaire designer bag heiresses to the Moon. The rest of us can starve to death and the economy won’t even blink.

        • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
          2·
          17 hours ago

          Your statement is mostly false, despite your valid examples. Wealth/income requires people/consumers. Phones/computers are cheap because billions can afford it. Food profits is a function of people. Autos definitely require scale, that is far more efficient than a humanoid robot doing flexible “manual” labour.

          At the same time, however, not requiring slaves does motivate genocide instead of just sharing wealth with the slaves. It’s better to exterminate humanity than to deal with slave class uppitiness.