I’ve probably mentioned Tom before on here. He’s the machines lead slash manager at work. Tom watches a lot of TV an comes up with many crazy theories about whatever he feels like. I’m going to present you with these theories one at a time so that you can break them down and find the huge flaws in them.
Theory #1: The 90% Robot theory. Tom says:
“In the future robots will take over most jobs done by people. Since there will bee too few jobs for people to do, the government will have to tax the companies making money hand over fist and use the money for a form of national wellfare program that will give people enough money to live on. People can be content with the money from the government or they can add to it by trying to get a job that robots cannot do (estimated to be around 10% of all jobs).
Refute away.
3 Comments
Monday, July 17th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Crazy. Jeff you could build those robots ;)
Making you responsible for the downfall of the world :)
Monday, July 17th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
C-a-p-i-t-a-l-i-s-m.
umm….enough said?
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 at 9:37 am
People have been complaining that all the jobs are being replaced by machines since the Industrial Revolution, and it just doesn’t work out that way. Yes, a certain subset of jobs gets replaced (we don’t have many candlemakers anymore) but the world is always inventing new jobs that we need people to do. The Register had a decent article about this a week or so ago if you feel like searching some archives.