That’s one of my favorite themes that the pseudo-marxists like to pimp.
They seem to think that the robots will be able to take over for humanity so we can be freed from the drudgery of labor and all live in egalitarian paradise.
What they can never answer is if the robots can do everything as good as or better than humans then why would they need us?
If we’re really lucky they will keep us around as pets…
The rest of this thread was just painful to read.
To do the tasks we are most efficient at doing, aka, comparative advantage. Hopefully, this can be done through free trade.
I agree with Jon 100%! If the OP really cared about it, then he or she should do something about it.
Like the saying goes “Actions speak louder then words”
its not the truth anymore, these day everyone can open small businesses & lots of people are selling the similar thing/services. each of them need to cut each other throat to survive..
If only it were that simple.
They want to completely replace humans with robots to free them from the theft that is labor–or something like that.
Then people would be free to sit around painting landscapes all day and human creativity would boom.
They have an equally nutty idea that robots would eventually cause labor to become non-scarce and that they need to use the current tax system to force both land and capital to become non-scarce to combat this.
Economics isn’t a zero-sum game.
Ouch…my eyes!! Is English your second, third or etc language? Your grammar is horrible!
The comment you made above makes you sound like a United Nations population control Nazi freak. No, More human population means more new technology, goods and services will be invented for everyone
The only 'fake job sector there is and that will ever be is the politicians and bureaucrats jobs. What we need is more politicians on unemployment!
WTF??? Yes, lets force 50% of the population to work on slavery plantations like some people did in the old days. That’s a really wonderful idea! WTF??? The Idea is to make progress not go backwards. Who would you force work on these plantations? Would you volunteer to work on one of these plantations or in a lab or whatever in agriculture? What do you have as a career? If You wouldn’t volunteer then why force others to do what you don’t want to do?
Now that’s what I call a oxy-moron if I ever saw or heard one!! An average persons reward for producing or creating values (taking care of our human wants, needs and desires) for society is money so it is connected to the economy. Thus economic growth is a good thing! In a true Laissez Faire free economy the rich would actually deserve to be rich.
We libertarians don’t want or expect anything from the government period, Except to provide physical defense and protect us against, fraud, coercion and force (this includes being protected from people like you that want to force half the populace to work in plantations).
Ha! have fun trying to find someone like that! The only sustainable leader we will ever need is a full blown genuine
wish everyone have time to do that, thats why i came up with a ‘plan’ how the machine should really helps human creates quality life in some way.. 
How are you refuting my assertion?
Business owners make profit based off of whether they can satisfy the wants of the buyer. The capitalist that can create the goods that are most satisfactory for the consumer wins, while the one that doesn’t loses profit. And also, business competition doesn’t mean that two businesses that sell the exact same product both go out of business. If the capitalist has to go out of business due to business competition, he can try another business that he may be better at doing.
English is my second language..
try to do research how many ppl currently are homeless, unemployed & starving to death today..
u probably have not been reading what im saying, i said completely replace agricultural sector with automated machine if possible. YES it is true nobody wants to be farmer, thats what im talking about & i proposed something to replace those ‘farmer’
why the agricultural sector? because the most basic survival of human is food. if this stage are not evolve properly, dont bother talking about the rest because when the food becomes scarce, human cant work with empty stomach. assume, if agricultural sector did going through the new revolution, then we should someway utilize those machine to support survival of human kind. read my first post again..
Stop seeking ‘economic growth’ actually means expansion of economy which actually i means like abandoned construction project, build up too much businesses but not useful(money laundering activities), not using recycled material on construction project, ridiculous maintainence cost, causing bad environment, pollution & etc etc.. i know there r so many people making wild speculation about this, but pls dont misunderstood. my main idea is how we suppose able to create a better world without wasting so many natural resources as it is limited. i also didnt say have to going back to stone age, but using modern technologies that can help our jobs easier and sooner it has the ability to support the basic survival of human being. when the supplement has been able to replaced by machines, human actually doesnt need to rely too heavily on monetary system anymore, by then human can move up a higher level of jobs, or turn hobby into jobs & such
yes, in capitalist world. only the strongest will survive. but that doesnt mean the weak should have left alone, just imagine if the basic human needs are taken care by machines, the weak will not need to change career or businesses. he/she will stay although business has significantly gone done, and usually people who stay has belief that they are the best providing product or services.
this is free will and free action. dont forget everyone only lives up to 80 years, when its the time to make it worthwhile?
Two words:
Comparative advantage.
You try to do some research! Our controlled economy, big business, big government, Dictators and regimens of other countries and elitists that have their own agenda are the cause of the problems you listed above. Instead of pointing the finger at the innocent, do something more constructive and point the finger at the real cause and try to do something about it.
I did read what you typed and you typed: “force 50% the population into agriculture” I.E old school style but maybe more technically advanced plantations, labs and what have you! We don’t tolerate tomfoolery around here! A robot or machinery isn’t forced, they are programmed to do a task! You will never be able to fool everyone and someone on these forums will always catch it.
You lost me! Do you mean expansion of the economy by removing wast full economic projects, activities and/or practices? If it is what you are saying I don’t know how that ties into stopping economic growth. Elaborate about it more!
As you said, the world is overcrowded. Why should we strive to sustain this overcrowdedness?
Internal contradictions ftw!