{"id":3844,"date":"2017-08-19T23:53:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2017-08-19T23:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T14:53:31","slug":"when-jobs-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/when-jobs-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"When Jobs Disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elsewhere these days there has been talk of a UBI – a Universal Basic Income. As one might expect, it has been proposed by Lefties as the basic means to guarantee all people a subsistence level of income. There are numerous arguments about why this is not a great idea, but I don’t believe we need to look at that here. We all grasp the underlying reasons society would not be benefited by this.<\/p>\n

But beyond this, there is a looming question, not necessarily of our or even our children’s lifetime, of what happens when there are no longer jobs. The scenario runs like this. AI improves continuously until it is able to run everything – and better than humans. It is always on the job, it is consistent, it doesn’t make mistakes. Furthermore, it knows how best to allocate resources for efficiency.<\/p>\n

?What then. ?What happens to humans. The AI’s will be running everything<\/em> – and better than the humans. ?Who will decide on the future of humans – the AI’s. Perhaps they will keep some around like pets. ?What can we expect out of humans in terms of improvements that could make the race viable.<\/p>\n

I know this sounds like sci-fi, but I believe the question is interesting. Remember, economics and wealth creation are a human thing. One person makes something and another has something to trade, so an exchange is made. None of the rest of the animal kingdom does this. ?What happens when humans no longer produce anything.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere these days there has been talk of a UBI – a Universal Basic Income. As one might expect, it has been proposed by Lefties as the basic means to guarantee all people a subsistence level of income. There are numerous arguments about why this is not a great idea, but I don’t believe we need to look at that here. We all grasp the underlying reasons society would not be benefited by this.<\/p>\n

But beyond this, there is a looming question, not necessarily of our or even our children’s lifetime, of what happens when there are no longer jobs. The scenario runs like this. AI improves continuously until it is able to run everything – and better than humans. It is always on the job, it is … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}