When Machines Do Your Job

[Gregorian]

5. I feel like apologizing for my repetition regarding this subject, but

It started out that we were seeing machines as doing the jobs we didn't want to do. Picking cotton, for example. And it's true. However, there is an elephant in this room that everyone is ignoring. When we talk about unemployment, the issue is more people than jobs available. And I suggest we think about the future situation where there are yet a billion more people on the planet, and what that situation will be in terms of unemployment, among many other things.

I'm saying that machines aren't the problem. What we're seeing are symptoms all over the place. And everyone seems to be perfectly willing to toil away on fixing the symptoms while the problem is getting worse.

My point is that up to a certain point in population, machines are great. Beyond a number, the number of machines per capita begins to make a ratio whereby people are left out in the cold without jobs.