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Elon Musk: Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage.
Computers, intelligent machines, and robots seem like the workforce of the future. And as more and more jobs are replaced by technology, people will have less work to do and ultimately will be sustained by payments from the government, predicts Elon Musk, the iconic Silicon Valley futurist who is the founder and CEO of SolarCity, Tesla, and
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Doodley
(9,088 posts)Robots would do the physical work of humans. Computers would do much of the intellectual work. It was a beautiful scenario.
We would be working 15 hour weeks and there would be an explosion in leisure pursuits. We would be able to fulfill our dreams of writing or sport or study or travel or whatever would fulfill us. How would it work if corporations were greedy and didn't share the dividend of technology? They would pay higher taxes. Wage costs would be lower, so they certainly would be able to pay more in corporation taxes.
It would be an ideal life for us all. What is so wrong with that vision?
Skittles
(153,160 posts)is you think the common folk will actually BENEFIT - they won't, not the way things are going now
demgrrrll
(3,590 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)So if you're thinking a POTUS run, you're wrong.