(Thanks, R. :)

Reader Ron writes:

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Re: Reader: ''AI will make jobs kind of pointl....

G’day Hobie,

I trust that you are well and thriving.

Thank you for this article.

Arguably characterising the dramatic drop in the need to employ workers for salaries and wages as a "skills development" problem amounts to deliberately obfuscating the truth, namely that humanity on this planet is on the cusp of a new era in which human labour will cease to be essential to maintain society in material abundance because AI, robots and technology will replace the need for much human physical and mental work.

Once AI and robotics dominate industrial, construction, transport, agricultural, health, legal, accounting and other industries the labour force required for servicing, maintenance and creation of improved robotic and technological designs etc will NOT require more than a fraction of the human manpower currently required to perform the work that will be done by AI and robotics in the future.

Accordingly, what we need to do is start focussing upon what these developments really mean for life as we know it. The first and glaringly obvious question arising from the coming technological dominance of the production and servicing of human needs IS: 'who will control the output of AI and robotics and who will reap the benefits from that output'? Currently our world is a growing unemployment and underemployment, low wage, high personal income taxation oriented welfare state dystopia because a handfull of incredibly rich individuals control the bulk of transnational corporations AND those individuals pay very little tax while accumulating and KEEPING the bulk of the benefits of that corporate production and associated servicing activities. See eg: How Billionaires Become Billionaires - Link http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/How-Billionaires-Become-Billionaires.shtml

How Interlinked Corporations Rule The World. - Link http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/How-Interlinked-Corporations-Rule-The-World.shtml
he corporate stranglehold on food and agriculture. - Link http://abundanthope.net/pages/Health_and_Nutrition_37/The-corporate-stranglehold-on-food-and-agriculture.shtml

BLIND FREDDY can see that this situation is NOT sustainable. The question is: 'What, if anything, is the bulk of humanity going to do about it'?

Here's a hint Pilgrims. IF the global population allows the current rapacious and totally dysfunctional corporatist domination and control of our world (typified by Amazon and Google et al) and fails to develop the mental muscle and guts to refuse to allow Fascists (ie corporatists and their puppet politicians and so-called Welfare governments) to exploit, impoverish and immiserate the bulk of the global population, human society on this planet will disappear up its own fundamental orifice. The choice is yours. Pretending that ALL that is required is retraining of workers to overcome "the skills gap"is ridiculous.

Proper use of AI and robotics etc should enable ALL of humanity to begin transitioning into a new age free of the drudgery of endless physical work that has hitherto been needed to survive. That result will mean that humans will become free to think and develop their innate creativity instead of scrabbling for a living as free range serfs (wage slaves) in the Fascist capitalist milieu we currently inhabit. However, that prosperous and abundant future for all can only be achieved if we shuck off the mind controlled illusion that a tiny cabal of banksters and corporatists are entitled to OWN and control the corporations and hence the technologies and profits of the machines that create abundance for all. Today it is estimated that some 700 individuals own and/or control the mega trans-national corporations that control global production of goods and services. Those individuals already HAVE most of this worlds' wealth and if they are allowed to continue to control the production and KEEP the totally inadequately taxed profits of most global mega corporations, human life on this planet is doomed.

The solution is obvious. Nations and communities must take back ownership OR control of the corporations that use AI and robotics etc to produce essential societal needs in the future in order to redistribute the resultant productivity and abundance. IF nations and communities ensure that the profits of ALL corporations are properly taxed so that NO ONE is able to appropriate, hoard and use for private purposes the personally unearned increments accruing from the use of AI, robotics and technologies generally, humanity will enter a golden age. But if not, not.

Peace and Blessings,
Ron

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