Think again! Soon, EVERY job will be taken by robots

Event the artists aren't safe.

All healthy, well adjusted people want to work. It's hardwired into our DNA to build, to produce, to gather, grow and trade. Without this impulse, our species could never have built civilization. But what happens when an essential part of our being becomes obsolete? What happens when there's no work left for us to do --and no work we can do?

LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - Every time humanity has experienced a revolution in how we work and live, great thinkers have fearfully predicted the obsolescence of man. The steam engine threatened to replace workers in large numbers and the anxiety was captured in The Ballad of John Henry.

John Henry was a "steel-driving man" who was pitted against a steam drilling machine. In the fabled contest, John Henry barely won, and lost his life in the process.

The poet's anxiety was premature however. The steam engine also gave us the locomotive and the railroad, which opened up a new world of industry and growth. The jobs lost to the steam engine were eventually replaced by better jobs created by new technology.

And with new technology came leisure.

Today, after the development of the computer and automation, we now have so much leisure people only work 8 hour days, where their ancestors may have worked ten or twelve. But always, new technology has created new, better jobs. Until now.

A final revolution is underway that has as a goal the replacement of all humans in the workforce. Scientists are working hard to develop artificial intelligence, capable of thinking like humans. In time, such development is expected to create thinking computers that are even smarter than their human creators.

When paired with robots, we will soon develop machines that do every conceivable task better than any human. We already have AI that can paint like Rembrandt, fly and land planes, drive cars, cook meals from scratch, and much more.

Such robots will create so much leisure there will be no more need for people to work. In fact, people will be the least preferred workers. People make mistakes, get sick, take vacations and require pay. They get tired and need breaks and sleep.

Even the bosses will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Bosses are human, they make mistakes. They forget things. They make emotional decisions.

There may always be a need for some human labor, but it isn't needed in abundant supply. Eventually, we will have billions of people on the planet, whose only function is to consume resources and reproduce.

What will we do with these people when this day comes?

What will we do with you?

---

'Help Give every Student and Teacher FREE resources for a world-class Moral Catholic Education'

Copyright 2021 - Distributed by Catholic Online