Quote:And demand will decrease when people lose their jobs to Robots, and aren't buying stuff anymore.  Because you know... when you don't have money, you can't spend it. And when they don't spend, the people who usually get their money are having their profits dropped too. 

 

Don't think it's just limited to unskilled workers either!  skilled workers will soon be replaced by Robots as well.  Because it's cheaper for companies to pay a robot who doesn't sleep, take sick days, and everything else, than it will be to pay a person to do the same job in thrice the time.


Your solution sounds so simple.  Just train them in a skill!  Phew.  That's easy enough.  Now if only we didn't already have a problem of there not being enough jobs for skilled workers already   (And again, before long those skilled jobs will be filled by Robots too!)


Eventually we'll get to the point where nobody works, because everybody instead gets a government allotment to spend every month.  Because there will be no jobs.  The Robots will have taken most of them.  That will in turn create a very lazy society.  

 

There's a severe shortage in many fields, problem is the people that are unemployed or stuck in low wage positions are not qualified to work in those fields. That's part of the solution right there, getting those people trained to meet the areas we do have a need of workers.

 

By your logic we should have resisted the industrial revolution, the internet, and robotics research all together. Technology is inevitable, as it advances it will replace general labor where it can, when you create an environment where the employers are forced by law to pay more it only makes that march towards technological labor easier. 

 

Remember, government creates nothing, sells nothing and produces nothing, so there will never be a point that we all sit around and wait for our allowance from big brother while the machines do the work. Government only distributes what it first confiscates. 

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