| TallSilhouette said: ...So, automation isn't about replacing human input?... |
That's not what automation results in. You are dreaming up a problem that doesn't exist. 200 years ago most people worked in agriculture because they had to. Automation has been happening since the start of the industrial revolution and today many people don't have to do the most basic jobs anymore because of automation. Automation is the reason more people can attend university, there are less high risk job, medicine is ever advancing, etc. You are imagining a world where machines replace humans but they will only replace the people who do specific manual jobs. Machines are not going to replace managers, psychiatrists, teachers, artists, game developers, product designers, R&D people, doctors, salesmen... I could go on but you get the deal. Machines do not replace human thought because machines are terrible at thinking.
"But the working class will be replaced!" No. It won't. Education standards will rise, just as they are doing now. More and more people will move to 'higher' job-sectors and away from manual labor just like very few people work in agriculture today. This is good. Automation is the reason why you can write posts on a videogaming forum and don't have to do manual labor in the field all day.
You are the guy who is afraid of automobiles because they will take away the stable boy's job.
