Thread by @LeonHWolf

The minimum wage for robots will always be 0 dollars an hour

Your job exists until either 1) your wages, inclusive of benefits, exceed the value you produce, or 2) the technology exists to produce and maintain a robot that could perform it for cheaper than your wages

Governmental efforts to avoid this reality inevitably end with people stuck in poverty producing goods in horribly inefficient ways and yet being terrified of any release from their condition (see, e.g., the farmers in India)

The insoluble problem of the future is that humanity already requires less labor than humanity produces, and the problem is likely to get worse. How do we keep 60% of the population working when the other 40% doesn’t need to? How do we replace the dignity and self worth of a job?

These questions are existential threats to society as we know it and instead we are spending 90% of our mental energy on the drawings in Dr. Seuss books.

Of all the dystopian novels/movies, the one that frightened me most was WALL-E. Not the mountains of garbage part, that part was nonsensical. The part about humans ending up as giant blobs strapped in floating chairs with screens 6 inches in front of our faces, managed by bots