Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "" video.

I think a lot of people get it wrong. Things being automated isn't a real issue just because it tends to be the sorts of things that are horrible for people to do. The real issue is that the savings in labor is going to the ultra wealthy, there's no tax on it to help cover the needs of the people losing their jobs to automation, there's no guarantee that this time there will be new jobs created by this in enough numbers to not create an underclass of completely unemployable people with no access to the essentials and whatever environmental problems that result from all of this.
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My personal belief is that eventually we'll be able to automate just about all the absolute essential things for human life. At which point, we'll probably have to pay people to engage in hobbies or engage in research and intellectual debate. The reason being is that "idle hands are the devil's playthings" doesn't necessarily only apply if you believe in the devil, but people who have too much time on their hands oftentimes find creative ways of spending that time that aren't always compatible with a peaceful society.
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I think we'll probably get to a point in the next century where robots can do pretty much all of the absolute essential tasks without much intervention from humans. But, even if it's not 100%, if it even gets as high as 40% of the jobs, it's going to pretty much completely upend the entire economy and could very well lead to a massive revolt if the ownership of those robots isn't broadly owned by a majority of the people. Just look at countries where they have unemployment in the 20-40% range, it gets ugly, extremely quickly, and it gets extremely cheap to recruit terrorists.
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For now. There isn't any real reason why we couldn't change the way that houses are constructed in order to allow for plumbing, electrical, and worse HVAC, to be installed via a machine. That being said, I do think that the trades are probably going to be some of the last things that are automated, if for no other reason than the massive amount of legacy infrastructure that's going to need to be maintained unless it can be replaced by something that robots can maintain without us.
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A lot of what's going on is the result of the people profiting off all of this not being the same people as the ones being hurt by it. If the ultra-wealthy saw some reasonable possibility of it hurting them, it would likely change the calculations a bit.
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If it's "with extreme prejudice," there ma be openings coming up soon.
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@bradhaines3142 Which is fine, but the people working those jobs need new jobs in that case then and the number of jobs related to maintenance and building these devices are going to be fewer than the jobs they take. Dangerous jobs really should be automated away as fast as suitable alternatives can be found though, we just need an appropriate tax or other source or revenue to deal with the displaced workers and to discourage it from happening for jobs that aren't dangerous or undesirable if there aren't other occupations available.
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@drew8235 It definitely will happen eventually, first it will start with new construction not requring a plumber because there's a machine that can be made to do that for us. Then, the older buildings will come down because they generally do eventually, even the relatively new building that was built for Psycho was replaced piece by piece until it was completely new before being torn down in it's entirety. Other buildings may last longer, but very few buildings last for centuries.
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@ Yep, people that don't do anything productive, by whatever means they personally measure that, wind up horribly depressed over time.
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@ To a large extent yes, but most people include generating things as part of that purpose. Whether it's kids at home or work products while away. If work weren't part of ones purpose, there would have been much higher rates of suicide when people were working 6 days a week than there were.
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@MarketsDriveTheWorld It was also extremely difficult to live like that. Hence why people invented better and better tools.
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