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by joshuaheard 3955 days ago
If automation is providing all your needs, you won't need a job.

[Edit] Spotted this after reading the article:

"Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data"

(http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/17/technology-c...

3 comments

>"Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data"

"Past results are not indicative of future performance"

We can't compare the last 200 years of human to the past 20,000.

For example 66 million years ago the dinosaurs had already lived around 140 million years. In another million they would be dead because of exceptional conditions. Everyday in which we live in modern society is an exception condition based upon both the rate of change in human knowledge and rate of change in the environment.

As to your first statement. If I own the machines why should I keep you, that are now unnecessary, alive and instead live in super luxury with a few million people on the planet.

Only if you can afford the upfront capital to purchase and maintain the machines.
Who owns the machines and reaps what they produce?

Hint: they are the same people who own your employers, buildings and machines that currently let you do your job