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Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here
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giantdragon
on 21/01/2014, 01:35:28 UTC
the amount of people directly affected by communism is an order of magnitude higher, you just can not compare one with the other.
Count also colonization of the Africa in favor of European bourgeoisie, fencing in England, slavery in U.S. etc and you can find extra order of magnitude of capitalism's victims comparing to the communism's.

As cool as Baxter is, and as useful as it can potentially become, it still can not do all the things you describe. It is only able to learn and repeat simple tasks. Knowing a thing or two about robotics, even that is an amazing achievement -- but way short of the robots you describe that will completely replace humans.
To break status quo we don't need full automation! I think even permanent disappearance of just 5-10% jobs will be enough to fire civil war if economical system won't be adjusted in time.

I'd say there will be just enough of these jobs to provide a level of subsistence to a good portion of the population. Keep in mind that there will be jobs created in such an economy which we can't even imagine right now.
You are repeating standard argument of the Luddite fallacy's supporter. But its not the law of physics that guaranteed to last forever.

But when talking about the more complex, creative jobs that you envision will be taken as well?
Not many people are creative enough to offer something that has value on the market ("superstar effect" will continue to grow as more and more things become pure digital - this already happened with movies, books, music, games, software and will be true for tangible items when personal 3D printers will evolve enough).