*** The Official MAGAposting thread ***

[MadMojoMonkey]

What's your endgame, spoon? I mean... assuming all production can be automated at some point, and that no manual labor will be needed in any industry, only skilled labor.

Given a society that overproduces basic resources with effective cost per person so low that only a tiny % (if any) of the population is needed to maintain that production, then what?

What does that look like? Do people keep seeking out new, ultimately trivial (from a healthy survival POV), jobs for themselves?

[BananaStand]

What's your endgame, spoon?

My name's not spoon, but I'm chiming in anyway. Short answer: there is no endgame.

I mean... assuming all production can be automated at some point, and that no manual labor will be needed in any industry, only skilled labor.

Given a society that overproduces basic resources with effective cost per person so low that only a tiny % (if any) of the population is needed to maintain that production, then what?

Education becomes more important. Hopefully you'll be retired by then.

What does that look like?

It looks exactly like it does right now.

If the economy demands more skilled labor than manual labor, then the workforce will evolve to compensate. it's been happening forever, why would you expect it to stop?

[MadMojoMonkey]

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I have no interest in anything you've ever said on this forum, and I find your presence here to be toxic to intelligent discourse.

If not for my strict belief in freedom of expression, I'd have banned you months ago. You belong on reddit, not FTR.

[BananaStand]

I have no interest in anything you've ever said on this forum,

100% untrue

[Poopadoop]

100% untrue

Lol, he doesn't dispute that he's a toxic idiot, he just disputes that he's not an interesting toxic idiot.

Well played.

[wufwugy]

What's your endgame, spoon? I mean... assuming all production can be automated at some point, and that no manual labor will be needed in any industry, only skilled labor.

Given a society that overproduces basic resources with effective cost per person so low that only a tiny % (if any) of the population is needed to maintain that production, then what?

What does that look like? Do people keep seeking out new, ultimately trivial (from a healthy survival POV), jobs for themselves?

I can tell you're thinking about this.

We can't predict the future details, but the past has shown us that as resource allocation becomes more efficient, people gain more resources and get creative about using their comparative advantages. An example of the latter is how it's because of efficiency gains of machines that the service sector even exists. Another example, how many people are employed in the software/hardware creation of computer technology? Well, there would be zero if not for efficiency gains (and related sector job declines) made by machines in respective sectors. Even what a teacher does depends on a lot of efficiency gains created by machines that came with associated job declines. Over time, the changes in jobs (and consumer wealth) has been net gain by a lot.