What would happen if machines and technology provided for all basic human needs?
Food production and distrobution, shelter, and entertainment are all provided from start to finish by machines which in turn have machines to manage production and upkeep of all the machines. What would you do with your time? What would society put its efforts into? What problems would develop?
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I vaguely remember reading something about this, and it said in the end that with all of these machines taking jobs, people would not be working so people would not be making money to buy food being produced by the robots. In whatever I read, the assumption though was that people would not be getting things for free. Anyway, I assume you're saying that we are getting things fro free and we don't have to work. Sorry I just wanted to get that first bit out. I'd do what I always do when I'm not working. Sleep, read, watch some anime online, then go 'dance'. 1
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Yeah, this is assuming all necessities are free. All the poverty and stuff is the interim. This is supposed to be after all that when goods and food are so abundant that they are no longer profitable for the purposes of sale. Kinda like wikipedia, think anyone buys encyclopedias anymore? I completely neglected the end, i believe society would probably put its efforts into being lazy more effectively however I believe it should put it's efforts into conquering more of space. Some problems I could see occurring include but are definitely not limited to, conspiracy theorists and anarchists fearing that the government is up to something, and thus rebelling, I could see the machines only working the way they do because of A.I. which of course means machine revolution, and I guess to add to the problem list I could add an actual corrupt leader or whoever's in charge of the machines, who decided to kill people, maybe by just poisoning all of the presumably free food. |
