is this something we should worry about? If we, as a civilisation (forget countries for a second) hypothetically replace all labourers by robots, then what? Is it any different from using cheap overseas labour? Will we be able to find something else to do for these people? Should we turn to communism in the long term, if the only 'working' people are software&robotics engineers? We obviously can't all be tech workers, can we? And would that even be useful?
There will always be unknown things and things to achieve! There is still nuclear fusion, computer brain interface, genetic engineering, inhabiting other planets. Figuring out how universe works, if there are other realities, etc.
My personal thoughts are that communism is merely the next step after capitalism (after discovering fusion and fabricating nanotechnology), however I don't think/hope it will play out as it had before in Russia.
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is this something we should worry about? If we, as a civilisation (forget countries for a second) hypothetically replace all labourers by robots, then what? Is it any different from using cheap overseas labour? Will we be able to find something else to do for these people? Should we turn to communism in the long term, if the only 'working' people are software&robotics engineers? We obviously can't all be tech workers, can we? And would that even be useful?
Once upon a time we were all farmers. Why not tech workers, designers and graphics people?
There will always be unknown things and things to achieve! There is still nuclear fusion, computer brain interface, genetic engineering, inhabiting other planets. Figuring out how universe works, if there are other realities, etc.
My personal thoughts are that communism is merely the next step after capitalism (after discovering fusion and fabricating nanotechnology), however I don't think/hope it will play out as it had before in Russia.
Why do you think that?