[manachar]

If you see a human doing something it's only because it's too expensive for a robot/machine/software to do it.

Delightfully, robot comes from a Czech word originating in "hard work, servitude, serfdom". Basically a slave. Any business looking to drive down costs push their human components as close to slavery as is allowable by law or acceptable to the workers.

So when people fight to preserve human jobs in say, fast food, agriculture, or factories, in general you see them preserved by humans opting to work for less or in worse conditions. Cheap human labor actually starts to limit technological progress at this point.

So, where's that leave the future? Hopefully we can move to a post-employment world, where people don't need masses of near-robot human resources to make profits. I don't know what the world looks like, but to me it's better than a world where humans compete with each other to be better robots for their bosses.

[jsprogrammer]

Why would one need to 'make profits' in a post-employment world?

[evv]

If you have all the resources you need to live out the rest of your life, then you wouldn't. Most of us aren't so lucky.

[manachar]

Why do billionaires need profits? Probably different reasons for each person. For some, it's just a way of keeping score.