dolanbaker wrote:Outcast_Searcher wrote:asg70 wrote:The downside is I would think this event will spur on development of further automation/robotics as robots don't get coronavirus.
That's an excellent point. And the longer this goes on, the more incentive there is for rapid substitution of people with robots. Even if it's a group of robots that needs a human to help one out now and then (while safely distanced from other humans) -- which would provide data for such robots and/or their software to improve with.
More consequences due to unpredictable future events.
It may hasten the introduction of universal basic income for the general population as it becomes clearer to people that we don't need as many human wage slaves to do the work. The old "work ethic" needs to be re-evaluated.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:That's my thought exactly. And we could help pay for that with some kind of a robot tax (tax the robot production instead of the worker production).
And yet, on this site, when I bring that idea up, it tends to be met with hysterics by folks that claim to be capitalists.
I'm definitely a capitalist, but just letting people starve because robots supplant more and more humans, re the ability to do jobs most efficiently just doesn't seem like either a moral OR workable solution to me.
Look, if there are plenty of decent jobs and people just don't want to work, that's one thing. But that's NOT what we're talking about here, re the need for the UBI, once the robot/automation technology gets "out of hand".
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Newfie wrote:Impressive. But no water or cooker or shitter! Exactly what event is it good for? Other than how he is using it.
Now, for us, THIS is a bunker.
Cog wrote:Newfie wrote:Impressive. But no water or cooker or shitter! Exactly what event is it good for? Other than how he is using it.
Now, for us, THIS is a bunker.
Apparently it sticks to the side of a wave pretty good too.
Ibon wrote:I am walking the common area and the birds that would usually be darting away are just continuing to go about their foraging just a couple feet away from me and paying me no attention. I can't get over this and have no explanation.......
Zarquon wrote:Ibon wrote:I am walking the common area and the birds that would usually be darting away are just continuing to go about their foraging just a couple feet away from me and paying me no attention. I can't get over this and have no explanation.......
When you see them pass each other little bags of popcorn when a human walks by, you should begin to really worry. Let us know.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:
Ibon, maybe they adapt really quickly to a lot less human foot traffic? (As a random guess).
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Ibon wrote:Outcast_Searcher wrote:
Ibon, maybe they adapt really quickly to a lot less human foot traffic? (As a random guess).
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Definitely part of the reason is that the whole common area here has emptied out of people and the birds and wildlife are moving in more. The other reason, a bit more esoteric I admit, is that I am moving about in the space more in the moment and a bit humbled by recent events. Maybe a bit more like Newfie's Dad.
Animals sense more than we are aware of.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Newfie wrote:Actuall, come to think of it, In Praise of Idleness is a perfect read when holed up within The Bunker.
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