Then again, if one machine does the work which used to be done by twenty people, one guy maintaining it is probably not going to make that much of a difference. The way I see it, the solution will be: - dystopian police state full of poor and broken people and a few rich overlords,
or
- basic income for a significant portion of the population, with additional rights of ressource consumption earned through work
or
- a significant reduction of the population. I do have a clear favorite. The other two are the reason I tend to get nervous when I learn about things like the militarization of police, total surveillance or all the recent sabre rattling.
We have a hard enough time as it is to get people to appreciate the purposes that our current social welfare programs have. Something like basic universal income would be a very hard sell.basic income for a significant portion of the population, with additional rights of ressource consumption earned through work