Quote from: BillyBobZorton on March 19, 2015, 04:23:51 PM

Quote from: SargeR33 on March 19, 2015, 09:19:55 AM

Quote from: BillyBobZorton on March 16, 2015, 02:27:47 PM

Quote from: SargeR33 on March 14, 2015, 07:10:53 AM

Lets just say if some people did not have money, they would be as useful as a wet tissue.

If I didn't have money, I could offer my skills to barter for other goods or services. This is what money fixes, it creates a field where everyone can play on.

The problem is when all your skills and what you have to offer gets automated by machines that are 100000% more efficient and cheaper than you.

Well not really, someone must make those machines. Someone must maintain those machines. The only reason we simplify these tasks is to move on to other tasks.

It's going to take what, 1% of the population to maintain and make those machines. What is the rest of people going to do? most people will simply not be needed in the future, including us.. but maybe we are all dead by then.

The economic history of the world reveals that division of labor leads to increased productivity with each technological paradigm shift (through deeper utilization of resources), but at the same time requires more and more people with ever narrowing specialization. Therefore your fears are mostly unfounded...