How would future economies work when 90% of jobs are replaced by robots/computers?

I would go work at a Village they have at some tourist's attractions of what living use to be, software of 1980's, 10 foot satellite dish out back, phone to call in orders, huge clock waiting for fills, cat sitting on top of CRT monitor that is black and white, watching porn on a beta machine after I used favorite 8-track.......ahhh the life. In back is my living module with Cherry 2000. ROFLMAO

 
Handle123 said:
I would go work at a Village they have at some tourist's attractions of what living use to be, software of 1980's, 10 foot satellite dish out back, phone to call in orders, huge clock waiting for fills, cat sitting on top of CRT monitor that is black and white, watching porn on a beta machine after I used favorite 8-track.......ahhh the life. In back is my living module with Cherry 2000. ROFLMAO

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Good grief, is that Melanie Griffith? Where do you find this stuff Handle?
 
cdcaveman said:
We do have alot of wheels! haha what are you talking about
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They really didn't need an assembly line to build wheels, we already had plenty, there was no wheel shortage, but the assembly line made the automobile possible.
 
prc117f said:
I do not see UBI happening. I suspect their solution to the problem would not be UBI but euthanasia and severe population control to get rid of the surplus population to a manageable size.

You cannot have a country with 300 million people but only 30 million employed. I wonder if the people at the top are even planning for the eventual jobless future and how to manage the risk of 90% of the population becoming unruly.
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I don't really see euthanasia becoming a method of population reduction...or at least I hope not. Belgium and Netherlands do allow it for non-terminally ill people:

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/0...-eligible-for-physician-assisted-suicide.html

But as far as I know, it's never been forced on anyone. When the government decides to get rid of innocent people who have not committed a crime, that's a very scary place. A big concern that I have is that the Darwinian forces of natural selection have been suppressed. It used to be that people who make bad life choices have a lower chance of passing on genes to future generations than people who make good life choices. Now the government takes care of those people and helps to perpetuate the culture that supports / enables bad life choices (a single mom with 3 kids can continue having kids to get more welfare money). So long-term, I don't see how this will be good for future generations. If you go to national park, the forest ranger will tell you not to feed the animals. Of course, we want to help animals out, but if we do, the animals will forget how to find food on their own. But doesn't that same logic also apply to humans? I fear that UBI could be like feeding the bears.
 
Robot armies are just around the corner and should be with us soon. Sending in the troops will be a thing of the past.
Countries will battle it out with their robots taking the hits.
 
Humpy said:
Robot armies are just around the corner and should be with us soon. Sending in the troops will be a thing of the past.
Countries will battle it out with their robots taking the hits.
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Anybody seen my drone?
 
Further to having an army of robots, this will make all those below officers redundant. More millions unemployed. A country such as the USA with very lax gun laws may regret having so many with nothing to do except take their share by force.
 
Humpy said:
Further to having an army of robots, this will make all those below officers redundant. More millions unemployed. A country such as the USA with very lax gun laws may regret having so many with nothing to do except take their share by force.
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ha, ha, in your perverted view the world won't be safe enough for citizens to own firearms. Pathetic.
 
The proposal was rejected in a Swiss referendum, but it is being experimented upon in Finland. I'm sure others will watch and learn, good or bad will become evident in time.

Another idea I've seen is UBI is literally that, everyone gets the same, those who do actual work get their wages on top of UBI. That will only be feasible when there is so much automation that the majority or a significant minority don't have work because of automation. Then machines create the wealth, with just a few humans running things, like one of those Sci-Fi movies. I won't be around to see it and I can't say I'm sorry either; I can't imagine life with nothing constructive to do.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/02/news/economy/finland-universal-basic-income/index.html
 
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