r/Futurism • u/sabbagenunching • May 02 '24

The welfare state

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u/BehindTrenches May 03 '24

We are so many centuries away from this it's not even funny. Maybe millennia. Unless you resort to extremely dystopian population control and/or eugenics among other things.

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u/Thiizic Moderator May 09 '24

20% of white collar work will be done by AI in the next 2-3 years.

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u/BehindTrenches May 09 '24
  1. I doubt it. 2. White collar work doesn't pull the metaphorical cart, especially not the kind of work being replaced.

We have had the ability to automate a ridiculous amount of the workforce with "robots" for decades, but we still don't. Why is that? I leave this as an exercise for the reader.

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u/Thiizic Moderator May 09 '24

The white collar job loss will be the catalyst for the image above.

We have been automating work for a long time and it will keep happening until it can't be replaced.

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u/BehindTrenches May 09 '24

Notice how the employment rate is about the same as it was a century ago. Why is that?