The Robots are Coming. Don’t Panic
When that day comes, there will be millions of individual answers, not a few simple ones.
You have doubtless heard of the automation tsunami coming to wash away our jobs. Robots, we are warned, will staff the factories and manufacture life’s necessities without employing a soul. Driverless Teslas will ferry the wealthy to and fro.
What will become of us jobless masses? Will we starve? Will the wealthy deploy giant carnivorous Roombas to keep the streets clear of riff-raff, driving us to seek refuge in the forests?
Some perspective is in order.
The Great Liberation
If you were an American a couple centuries ago, you worked about 70 hours per week. The US was mostly a nation of subsistence farmers where virtually everyone had to work. From childhood until you fell over dead, fields needed to be tended and cows milked if you were to eat. Idle your early years in school? Fuggedaboudit. Retirement? A luxury people couldn’t even imagine.
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