Automation, artificial intelligence, and adaptable general purpose humanoid robots will replace half the human jobs that exist today by 2046. Those 80 million people and the hundreds of thousands of people that join the job market each month will all be unemployed. The ratio of employed to unemployed in 2046 will approximately reverse the present 78/22 to an estimated 25/75, three out of four people will be unemployed.
Human workers are rapidly going obsolete. The middle class is not dwindling, it is being decimated. Even if you or your kids are among the fortunate 1/4th who have employment, the value of human labor is rapidly approaching zero. Those employed will not be middle class, as each wage earner and family will have to be taxed as to support 3 other families. Nor will they earn much to begin with.
Once upon a time, high technology was thought of as a major new source of jobs. In actual truth, tech provides one job for every 8.3 jobs it automates and eliminates. Microsoft, Apple, and Google - the three largest tech companies on the planet, employ worldwide in total less people than join the job market in the USA alone in a single month.
Obsolete is a new video documentary available streaming on Amazon Prime. It is 55 minutes long and worth your time.
We're told the future doesn't need us. With the rise of technology, humans will have to be very clever - and very careful - not to be left behind, because human labor is rapidly losing its value. Is this the real motivation behind a secretive effort to reduce population and centralize control? Maybe the biggest threat we face isn't just automation, but the risk that humans are becoming obsolete.
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