SF is an extreme, yes. Caused mostly by their own mismanagement and stupidity.

whens this Unite the Right rally again?

But it's illustrative.

When self-driving cars are mainstream, and Google Duplex has eliminated phone support and receptionists, and kiosk ordering has been deployed at most restaurants, and drone delivery is feasible, that's when the disruption in low-skill employment will start to happen. So not too far off.

People pushed out of those sectors are going to be numbered in the millions, and they'll be forced to compete in other low-skilled sectors that are more difficult to automate.

Forcing down wages in those areas.

and then, self-driving cars will kill suspected Nazi's by intentionally driving them to their deaths 🤔

Jobs that will remain will be those for which a human touch is desired. Like healthcare, or childcare and education.

Wages will be driven down in those sectors, which is both a negative and a potential positive.

Negative in that the people doing those jobs will, all else being equal, be more miserable.

Potential positive in that if you reduce the price of something, you can buy more of it for the same money.

A society that has more nurses, home care workers, physiotherapists, primary school teachers, daycare workers, etc, is probably a pretty good society.

Education is gonna fade, it doesn't need a human touch

Assuming you can keep those people from hating their lives due to oppressive poverty.

@Dr.Wol college level yes. K-12 probably not.

you can get homeschooling for that

Kids in front of screens aren't going to learn shit you want them to learn.

That's another thing.

If wages are really low, you might see stay-at-home parenting become competitive (assuming one parent has a tech job).

Like why should a software engineer making half a million bucks have their partner wiping old people's bums for a living making $20k.

exactly

so with that, comes less need for primary schooling

Only for those who have one parent making sufficient moeny.

Two people making $20k aren't going to be able to afford to have one stay at home.

At least in the current market paradigm. We're going to have to figure something out that augments the free market in order to bring about a societal structure that we can bear.

space colonisation / mining

Doesn't help. Who owns the capital?

companies

And the couple scraping by on $40k combined income ain't going to be holding much stock.

much like how the family of military people get full cover for everything, cuz those soldiers lay their lives on the line,

You will get companies that pay for hazard pay in space etc good money

Military people get less than you'd think, and only because governments can print money.

Remember: we're thinking about a world in which human labor is even cheaper than now.

Companies will have market power.

They can fuck whoever they want for whatever they want.

My dad got really good money and amazing benefits

governments can't just print money, that will destroy the currency

It'll be a permanent employer's market.

What's the US deficit again?

the deficit it owes itself you mean?

if it could print money like that, it wouldn't have a deficit

the whole reason there IS a deficit is cuz the government CAN'T just print money to cover costs