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by siberianbear
3539 days ago
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I have a lot of sympathy for the OP’s position, having worked as a Type 2 in Silicon Valley and having made enough money to retire and live off the investment interest at a relatively young age. From the position of Type 2, the problem with Type 1 is that they are not Type 2. They just don’t understand it. But Type 1 can’t understand it and isn’t going to understand it. Type 1 (as a group) is increasing in number and getting angrier and louder, and it’s clear that this trend is going to continue. I fear what the endgame will look like.... |
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We cannot turn our backs on people because their economic value has diminished to almost nothing. Type 1s are not worthless even if they have no chance at making a decent income.
If we've reached the point where there's enough automation to care for everyone's basic needs (as a threshold of human labor; not "absolute automation") then we shouldn't be insisting that everyone work for the sake of working.
I live with and care for an autistic adult with an IQ around 60. She's not family but if we didn't take care of her who the hell would? Her economic value is basically negative. If she gets a job it would only be to keep her busy. She can't even add up coins let alone keep track of a bank account.
It's easy to see how someone with an IQ of 60 has no economic value. However, as time goes on and more work gets automated the intelligence-to-economic-value ratio assimilates higher and higher levels of intelligence.
Soon--maybe even right now--the economic value of an able-bodied human of average intelligence will reach zero. When that happens the Type 2 people (and their friends, descendants, cronies, etc) will basically own everything. Civilization depends on that not happening.
If we want to live in a civilized society we need to do everything we can to ensure that doesn't happen.