There will be enough jobs. Whether or not you can live on the pay isn’t guaranteed. If there’s too many people, or even if the gap between the rich and poor is too large, the pay of the lowest jobs can fall below subsistence level.
This keeps conspicuously not happening to humans
The general version hasn’t. I think there has been times when the wage for untrained labor has fallen below subsistence.
The other is the “robot world” limit.
If robots do every kind of manual labor for us, there will still be jobs. The only limit is when they do the manual labor and the mental labor. It’s not the robot world limit. It’s the singularity.
That still very well might not get rid of jobs. It’s unlikely that people as we know them are the best at any job, but as long as you have them around, and they’re going to have those pretend MMORPG jobs anyway, it might be best to use some of them.
In either case, the safest job is “person with capital”.
Strictly speaking, that’s the only kind of job. Being good at something is considered human capital.
I’d agree that “person with monetary capital” will be a job that will last up until the end.
This isn’t really relevant, but it’s worth commenting on. I can’t shake the feeling that I’m arguing with you, but we seem to be in agreement.
There will be enough jobs. Whether or not you can live on the pay isn’t guaranteed. If there’s too many people, or even if the gap between the rich and poor is too large, the pay of the lowest jobs can fall below subsistence level.
The general version hasn’t. I think there has been times when the wage for untrained labor has fallen below subsistence.
If robots do every kind of manual labor for us, there will still be jobs. The only limit is when they do the manual labor and the mental labor. It’s not the robot world limit. It’s the singularity.
That still very well might not get rid of jobs. It’s unlikely that people as we know them are the best at any job, but as long as you have them around, and they’re going to have those pretend MMORPG jobs anyway, it might be best to use some of them.
Strictly speaking, that’s the only kind of job. Being good at something is considered human capital.
I’d agree that “person with monetary capital” will be a job that will last up until the end.
This isn’t really relevant, but it’s worth commenting on. I can’t shake the feeling that I’m arguing with you, but we seem to be in agreement.