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Right now it seems like a lot of jobs should not exist but the tech is being held back. The government is just throwing money at companies to hire people so there is no reason to automate or do away with a lot of these simple jobs. This will likely change over the next decade.
Example #1 transportation/driving jobs
This is the biggest example I can think of off the top of my head. In the USA alone driving jobs like Trucking or the gig economy apps (doordash uber lyft) are all putting billions into companies that can fund automated cars. This is by far the biggest expense driving jobs are also one of the easiest ways for low skill people to make middle class incomes truckers can make 80K a year pretty easily if they are willing to work bad hours that's the same as most nurses. This market accounts for 10 million people's livelihoods in the USA.
Example #2 basic customer service jobs
A lot of service jobs over the phone or in person are basically the human equivalent of being search engines. Most of the tech help front desks or retail customer service people have nothing new to say I've worked roles like this after 4 month you basically are on auto pilot all day. The biggest reason a lot of these jobs have not been automated is that Indians or third worlders do a lot of these roles over the phone for very cheap so there is less urgency since its already dirt cheap. But these roles are on their way out and will effect millions of people in the West and countless more in the developing world.
What this all means...
I just listed millions of simple jobs anyone above 90 IQ could easily hold some of which could even give them a middle class lifestyle. In the future more and more simple robotic tasks will just be unnecessary especially after this recession forces many old companies to find any way to cut costs. This will lead to a point in the future where a larger percent of people have little if any ways to survive without assistance. These people will likely live on something like Universal basic income or a welfare protocol.
Likely solution the governments will take.
The first one is what I mentioned already UBI or a monthly check will be given to people for the foreseeable future. This will make a lot of people feel meaningless and so there will be increased investment in escapes from reality with VR tech porn drugs anything you can think of. It will just be a permanent class of people who only exist to increase the economy by consuming the next product in their pods.
Option #2 mass sterilization or eugenics/depopulation. Basically trying to lower the population as much of the previous slave cattle is no longer even useful since they can be automated. So through propaganda and other means they will try to get less people to have kids and decrease the total population.
Option #3 This is sort of what is currently going on. Use the money printer to fund a lot of inefficient companies to keep hiring employees for pointless tasks. Basically despite automation make up tasks for people to do for money to keep them preoccupied.
Why this is terrifying
Being a neet 24/7 with VR tech sounds cool but if large swaths of the population are useless then social credit scores will become a major thing. If you don't do things the government or companies like they could cut off your UBI and starve you to death. The one thing preventing a lot of this stuff was that people had freedom of where to place their money and to some extent the society needs 80-90% of people to work to function is we end up in a situation where over a quarter of people have no jobs or could not fund themselves without ubi you will be at the mercy of whoever funds you till you die. There will be an increasing number of rich technocrats who either own the tech or are smart enough that they are necessary for the system and an increasing number of disposable cattle that is no longer needed. By 2040 I'm not sure if we will reach a singularity or true AI conciseness but for sure most simple 90 IQ tasks like driving customer service basic data entry ect will be automated.
Example #1 transportation/driving jobs
This is the biggest example I can think of off the top of my head. In the USA alone driving jobs like Trucking or the gig economy apps (doordash uber lyft) are all putting billions into companies that can fund automated cars. This is by far the biggest expense driving jobs are also one of the easiest ways for low skill people to make middle class incomes truckers can make 80K a year pretty easily if they are willing to work bad hours that's the same as most nurses. This market accounts for 10 million people's livelihoods in the USA.
Example #2 basic customer service jobs
A lot of service jobs over the phone or in person are basically the human equivalent of being search engines. Most of the tech help front desks or retail customer service people have nothing new to say I've worked roles like this after 4 month you basically are on auto pilot all day. The biggest reason a lot of these jobs have not been automated is that Indians or third worlders do a lot of these roles over the phone for very cheap so there is less urgency since its already dirt cheap. But these roles are on their way out and will effect millions of people in the West and countless more in the developing world.
What this all means...
I just listed millions of simple jobs anyone above 90 IQ could easily hold some of which could even give them a middle class lifestyle. In the future more and more simple robotic tasks will just be unnecessary especially after this recession forces many old companies to find any way to cut costs. This will lead to a point in the future where a larger percent of people have little if any ways to survive without assistance. These people will likely live on something like Universal basic income or a welfare protocol.
Likely solution the governments will take.
The first one is what I mentioned already UBI or a monthly check will be given to people for the foreseeable future. This will make a lot of people feel meaningless and so there will be increased investment in escapes from reality with VR tech porn drugs anything you can think of. It will just be a permanent class of people who only exist to increase the economy by consuming the next product in their pods.
Option #2 mass sterilization or eugenics/depopulation. Basically trying to lower the population as much of the previous slave cattle is no longer even useful since they can be automated. So through propaganda and other means they will try to get less people to have kids and decrease the total population.
Option #3 This is sort of what is currently going on. Use the money printer to fund a lot of inefficient companies to keep hiring employees for pointless tasks. Basically despite automation make up tasks for people to do for money to keep them preoccupied.
Why this is terrifying
Being a neet 24/7 with VR tech sounds cool but if large swaths of the population are useless then social credit scores will become a major thing. If you don't do things the government or companies like they could cut off your UBI and starve you to death. The one thing preventing a lot of this stuff was that people had freedom of where to place their money and to some extent the society needs 80-90% of people to work to function is we end up in a situation where over a quarter of people have no jobs or could not fund themselves without ubi you will be at the mercy of whoever funds you till you die. There will be an increasing number of rich technocrats who either own the tech or are smart enough that they are necessary for the system and an increasing number of disposable cattle that is no longer needed. By 2040 I'm not sure if we will reach a singularity or true AI conciseness but for sure most simple 90 IQ tasks like driving customer service basic data entry ect will be automated.
