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tonyhart7 14 hours ago

I am also certain given time this problem is achievable but the problem is what we expect after that ????? mass unemployment or we just convert all human into robot repairer ???? what the end goal there

joquarky 32 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> I went through this Ford engine plant about three years ago, when they first opened it.

> There are acres and acres of machines, and here and there you will find a worker standing at a master switchboard, just watching, green and yellow lights blinking off and on, which tell the worker what is happening in the machine.

> One of the management people, with a slightly gleeful tone in his voice said to me, “How are you going to collect union dues from all these machines?”

> And I replied, “You know, that is not what’s bothering me. I’m troubled by the problem of how to sell automobiles to these machines

- Walter Reuther, Nov. 1956 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars

tw04 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Basically yes. The robots take care of the rich, and poor people with their need to have a cut of the resources just go away.

They do believe in a post capitalism utopia, they just think only about a thousand people need to enjoy it.