[ Return ] [ Entire Thread ] [ Last 50 posts ]
>> | No. 4936
4936
>Elon Musk said he would probably launch a humanoid robot prototype next year dubbed the “Tesla Bot”, which is designed to do “boring, repetitious and dangerous” work. |
>> | No. 4937
4937
I'm not interested until they're catgirls. |
>> | No. 4938
4938
Of all the malignant billionaires in the world today I find Musk to be the most tedious. Like some kind of physical embodiment of the collective unconscious of all of the worst subreddits combined. Bezos and his dystopian wage cage have nothing on Musk's capacity to take a futuristic concept and render it trite with a knowing wink and some naff branding. |
>> | No. 4939
4939
>>4938 |
>> | No. 4940
4940
>>4938 |
>> | No. 4941
4941
That's sod all, mate. I'm cracking cold fushion next year and here's some twat in a leotard to explain how, through the wonderous magic of dance no less... |
>> | No. 4942
4942
In fairness to him, he's acknowledging that there must be a universal basic income as physical labour in the future will be a personal choice with developments like this. Maybe he is our fully-automated luxury communism saviour after all? |
>> | No. 4943
4943
>>4940 |
>> | No. 4944
4944
>>4943 |
>> | No. 4945
4945
TBF it's more realistic than you might expect. Sticking a robot in a factory used to cost seven figures and take a year, but now you can buy a cobot off the shelf for ten or twenty thousand and have it up and running within a day. For decades robots had to be fenced off in dedicated production cells, but modern robots have sensors to safely work alongside human operators. There's loads of manufacturing coming back to the western world, because automation technology has massively eroded the advantage China has in terms of wages. |
>> | No. 4946
4946
>>4945 |
>> | No. 4947
4947
>>4946 |
>> | No. 4948
4948
>>4946 |
>> | No. 4949
4949
>>4948 |
>> | No. 4950
4950
>>4949 |
>> | No. 4951
4951
>>4949 |
>> | No. 4952
4952
>>4949 |
>> | No. 4953
4953
>>4949 |
>> | No. 4954
4954
>>4949 |
>> | No. 4955
4955
>>4954 |
>> | No. 4956
4956
>>4955 |
>> | No. 4957
4957
The lumpenproletariat will be fighting each other for crumbs of soylent green, while the new aristocracy will be orbiting earth in their own personal robot harem, enjoying an endless succession of spectacular sunsets and even more spectacular fellatio. |
>> | No. 4958
4958
>>4956 |
>> | No. 4959
4959
>>4958 |
>> | No. 4960
4960
We already have mindless machines doing our dirty jobs, we call them third worlders and immigrants. Labour will just shift more and more into different professions as it did during the industrial revolution or deindustrialisation etc. |
>> | No. 4961
4961
>>4954 |
>> | No. 4962
4962
>>4954 |
>> | No. 4963
4963
>>4962 |
>> | No. 4964
4964
>>4963 |
>> | No. 4965
4965
>>4964 |
>> | No. 4966
4966
>>4965 |
>> | No. 4967
4967
>>4964 |
>> | No. 4968
4968
>>4967 |
>> | No. 4969
4969
Musk is like Peter Molyneux but worse. |
>> | No. 4970
4970
>>4961 |
>> | No. 4971
4971
My parents are rich enough that they could theoretically sustain me indefinitely, and indeed they have done a few times because I am a fairly shambolic adult. It was comfy, yes, but existentially it was hellish. I wouldn't buy myself a big TV, because asking mummy for your pocket money when you're 28 is, for me at least, fundamentally shameful. So I lived like a peasant. I don't know if it's just me, but I really want to have earnt whatever I have. Even if every millennial was in this situation, so I didn't need to feel as ashamed, that's pretty close to how things are in some places and I still don't like it. If they can get rich, why can't I? It would take a lot of effort for society to convince people to just sit quietly and accept free money without sacrificing their dignity. The recent furlough scheme has proven this; think of all the anti-lockdown people who didn't want to be paid to stay home. |
>> | No. 4972
4972
>>4970 |
>> | No. 4973
4973
>>4971 |
>> | No. 4974
4974
>>4973 |
>> | No. 4975
4975
I would absolutely quit working if I was being given enough money to live on comfortably. It would give me the freedom to do more volunteering and community-related stuff. |
>> | No. 4976
4976
>>4974 |
>> | No. 4977
4977
>>4976 |
>> | No. 4978
4978
>>4972 |
>> | No. 4979
4979
FIRE (Financial Indepence, Retire Early) is a thing, and there are a several blogs and guides for how that works. And the sum of it is that once money is no longer an issue you need a hobby. Or two, or three. No matter where you are on the spectrum we as humans desire company, food, shelter, and purpose. In that order. |
>> | No. 4980
4980
It surely says something about our conception of freedom that having to work 40 hours a week to live in a job that it isn't really necessary for a person to be doing is freedom, while it would be a dystopian tyranny to imagine a society where you just get UBI and (say) to stop you dossing about all day, you've got to spend say 5 hours a week in some kind of creative or educational pursuit. |
>> | No. 4981
4981
Having a job makes you time poor. You're forever prisoner to having your week constrained and you're in a constant battle for convenience to give yourself more time. If you're on the dole then you may not be rich in a monetary sense but you're no longer a prisoner to time. |
>> | No. 4982
4982
rock and dole.jpg UBI would bring about a new cultural golden age because people would be freed from wasting their lives in pointless make-work jobs. |
>> | No. 4983
4983
>>4978 |
>> | No. 4984
4984
>>4983 |
>> | No. 4985
4985
>>4984 |
>> | No. 4986
4986
>>4976 |
>> | No. 4987
4987
I have Asperger's, where's my billion fucking dollars? |
>> | No. 4988
4988
>>4985 |
>> | No. 4989
4989
1280px-Double_Dip_(4).jpg >>4988 |
>> | No. 4990
4990
>>4988 |
>> | No. 4991
4991
>>4990 |
>> | No. 4992
4992
>>4991 |
>> | No. 4993
4993
>>4992 |
>> | No. 4994
4994
>>4969 |
>> | No. 4995
4995
Untitled.jpg >>4994 |
>> | No. 4996
4996
>>4978 |
>> | No. 4997
4997
As has already been pointed out, plenty of people have already been made surplus to requirements by automation and technology. We don't have to postulate. We know what happens to them. They don't get UBI. They get made homeless. |
>> | No. 4998
4998
>>4996 |
>> | No. 4999
4999
>>4997 |
>> | No. 5000
5000
>>4999 |
>> | No. 5001
5001
>>4998 |
>> | No. 5002
5002
Have you actually seen the fucking dance the man pretending to be a robot does? This has to be a prank, right? Like when Joaquin Pheonix became a rapper? That kind of long winded prank that doesn't quite land. |
>> | No. 5003
5003
s3-news-tmp-145694-main--default--1024.png >>5001 |
>> | No. 5004
5004
>>5002 |
>> | No. 5005
5005
>>5003 |
>> | No. 5006
5006
labour.jpg >>5005 |
>> | No. 5007
5007
>>5001 |
>> | No. 5008
5008
>>5003 |
>> | No. 5009
5009
>>5007 |
>> | No. 5010
5010
>>5006 |
>> | No. 5012
5012
>>5010 |
[ Return ] [ Entire Thread ] [ Last 50 posts ]
Delete Post [] Password |