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Well, there will be some jobs in robot service, but most of that work should be done by...robots. Self-driving ships don't need humans. Robots should be doing most of the ship building.

Growing and processing food should be highly automated, and soon. If we have "infinite" (renewable) energy we can cut down on the chemical input and have robots plucking each weed and carefully metering out the water. The price of "organic" should drop close to or even below "conventional".

> We don't have the parts that we need now to build new cars and tractors. Can we really afford to be building robots?

half a billion people have food insecurity, and with climate change that is growing. Can we really afford to build more meat puppets?

More to the point, the article talked about the population of SK dropping by a half by the end of the century. A transient parts problem today is irrelevant, especially given we have to design better robots over the next 78 years.



The working age population is a more pressing problem[1].

I don't share your blithe optimism that we can automate the millions of tasks that humans do so quickly and easily.

1. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/20-69...




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