[onlyrealcuzzo]

Like when people were working in private equity, marketing, law, finance, etc before the machines took AG jobs?

Those jobs didn't really exist yet, because everyone was too busy trying to get enough to eat.

~50% of the people on the planet live in pretty miserable conditions. We do not live in the age of abundance. Contrary to popular opinion, if we just split up Bill Gates's money, it would not be enough for everyone to have a nice life. On net, we will benefit massively from freeing up labor to do other things - beside mundane things that could be automated but currently cost too much to automate with current methods for it to make sense to automate them.

[coldtea]

>Like when people were working in private equity, marketing, law, finance, etc before the machines took AG jobs?

We could do with fewer "marketing, law, finance, etc" jobs.

[JumpCrisscross]

> We could do with fewer "marketing, law, finance, etc" jobs

We can say this about almost any job category. For those perceived as useless, good riddance. For those seen as essential, they’re essential—wouldn’t it be nice if doctors could spend as much time as they wanted with every patient because a machine was doing the boring bits?

[onlyrealcuzzo]

Or because we didn't need X profession, so those people could be doctors instead...

[NemoNobody]

I'm not sure it's 50% of the planet that's living in miserable conditions - we really do live in an age of abundance. The United States supplies 25% of the global food supply - that's a single country.

Human Beings have been forced to survive most of our existence - I believe when we lift ourselves out of the necessity of work, that we finally actually be human for the first time.

We are supposed to exist above it all as we are the only life that we are aware that could ever do that.