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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When will it be economically viable to dump all the people who have to set up the equipment and all of the people who have to do everything but make the basic structure? Is this 'house set up and entirely built by robots down to the light fixtures with no human intervention' a near future proposition?

[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When was it economically viable to replace hand-sewn lumber with lumber mills?

Then they went and made portable electric saws. What a world!

And then electric drills! And laser levels!

Remember paper ledgers and abacuses? Ever hear of Microsoft Excel?

We keep making tools that always increase productivity and reduce time and cost. It’s Constant incremental progress, and on a large scale it’s great because it frees up (human) resources to focus on new industry and technology, which furthers the CIP. On the micro scale, there may be a small number of temporarily displaced workers as jobs shuffle around and workers re-skill.

But at this particular intersection of technology, we are at a pretty bad spot. We are on the verge of massive progress in multiple industries, and wealth has concentrated in the elite classes. “Temporarily displaced workers” won’t have the capital to re-skill or invest their own resources into new industry. This is bad.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

When was it economically viable to replace hand-sewn lumber with lumber mills?

When they did it. Because they could process a huge amount more lumber. I'm not sure I understand.

[-] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

what they are saying is that in the past, technological leaps meant increases in productivity and generally freed the displaced workers into new careers, but this time the sheer scale of change that is imminent doesn't leave time for that. it's going to be bad

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