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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Every time technology improves people have chosen of their own free will to continue working for a higher standard of living. You could easily sustain a middle class lifestyle from 100 years ago subsiding on only gov't handouts and charity, but very few people make that choice. Your assumption that working isn't something we're hardwired to do is flawed, imo.
You are stating this as if its fact and then drawing conclusions from it. This isn't an inevitable outcome and doesn't seem especially likely to me. You can't extrapolate things forever, and Ray Kurzweil does not have a monopoly on making bad predictions about the future.
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the point is that people die because they don't have money to buy food which is plentiful enough to feed everybody. The point is that there are homeless people when there is enough homes in the US to house every single person twice over. I agree that there will always be opportunity for innovation and a few will always benefit and get ahead. THATS FINE. But the rest need to have their basic needs taken care of especially if we have the ability to easily do it. When machines are able to perform every task imaginable, there will still be a need for innovation, HOWEVER, if there are 20 billion people on earth, there won't be 20 billion innovators. its an impossibility. A system needs to be in place where you can still get ahead but the social safety net will have to get increasingly larger and larger to accommodate more and more people that will eventually not have the ability to "get a job"