That sounds like an interesting novel or movie, but utterly impractical in the real world.
Entirely too easy to game, or imagine a scenario where several generations after it’s implementation, “high producing” robot jobs are inherited, creating a permanent upper class and a permanent lower class, because the only jobs that EVERYONE has access to are the jobs that will break your robot, and your bank.
It’s essentially not different than the current situation from an exploitability aspect.
Currently every human being owns one “commercial robot”, aka their body. Theoretically this means that labor is distributed: Every person can perform the work of one person.
But that doesn’t stop capitalism to exploit that labor unfairly. A worker earning a company €1, gets only a very small fraction of that money.
That’s literally the system we have now.
And we aren’t even getting into what kind of robot one owns and that these robots perform wildly different depending on the task at hand (factory robot, vacuum cleaner robot, anything in between, …)
The alternative: let the ultra wealthy be the only ones with robots, and watch them literally take everything, and evict us to swamps. The lucky few get to be sex slaves, zoo animals, and torture victims, while the rest get to starve or be hunted down by drones.
Cmon, you’ve posited two extremely improbable scenarios, do you really need others to point out the more likely ones, that don’t involve us going full Mad Max?
UBI is one of the obvious ones. Tax the means of production, and make sure everybody has the basic necessities for survival.
That sounds like an interesting novel or movie, but utterly impractical in the real world.
Entirely too easy to game, or imagine a scenario where several generations after it’s implementation, “high producing” robot jobs are inherited, creating a permanent upper class and a permanent lower class, because the only jobs that EVERYONE has access to are the jobs that will break your robot, and your bank.
It’s essentially not different than the current situation from an exploitability aspect.
Currently every human being owns one “commercial robot”, aka their body. Theoretically this means that labor is distributed: Every person can perform the work of one person.
But that doesn’t stop capitalism to exploit that labor unfairly. A worker earning a company €1, gets only a very small fraction of that money.
That’s literally the system we have now.
And we aren’t even getting into what kind of robot one owns and that these robots perform wildly different depending on the task at hand (factory robot, vacuum cleaner robot, anything in between, …)
The alternative: let the ultra wealthy be the only ones with robots, and watch them literally take everything, and evict us to swamps. The lucky few get to be sex slaves, zoo animals, and torture victims, while the rest get to starve or be hunted down by drones.
That’s a classic false dilemma, there’s plenty of other options besides those two extremes.
Ok then, elaborate.
Cmon, you’ve posited two extremely improbable scenarios, do you really need others to point out the more likely ones, that don’t involve us going full Mad Max?
UBI is one of the obvious ones. Tax the means of production, and make sure everybody has the basic necessities for survival.