Kantor on 10 July 2012
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For all the anarcho-capitalists, libertarians, and so on, how do you expect us to handle the transition into a world in which labor has been made mostly redundant if not completely unnecessary through advances in robotics and other technologies if government is virtually powerless?
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I, for one, will welcome our robotic overlords.
To be serious, though, we are already seeing a trend towards service economies in the developed world; more and more jobs require college degrees and other advanced training. Factory jobs and farming will of course be the first to go to automation. They are already there, for the most part. The real problem arises when the robots gain the ability to think independently and can conceivably work as doctors, lawyers, teachers and researchers. That will be one of the great challenges we face in the future, but I don't see how a larger government would help with that at all.
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