- People are doomed after driverless system breakthrough
- 5 diploma requirement for a new job
- only rich with benefit from technology
- whoever thinks this is not neat thinks they are smarter than average Joe
How does one even address this?
The most important part to understand is that systems operate on a “use it or lose it” principle. This is why no one looks like Arnold while sitting in a chair all day, even if they eat all the protein.
If we stop being useful nothing can stop what we created from chewing us up and spitting us out. And all this while everyone involved may have the best of intentions even.
And most people can’t adapt that fast or at all to this situation. It has happened before, many times and it keeps happening at larger and larger scales, in shorter and shorter periods of time.
The Aztec and Inca didn’t adapt to the European tech and get “jobs”. They went extinct.
I agree with everything the OP has written. I had a similar revelation myself not long ago. I think that I’m one of the smart ones and that I’ll okay, I’ll thrive even. But what about stupid people? Stupid people deserve to have happy lives too.