Comment by pixl97
3 years ago
Whenever I read a thread like this it makes me wonder how little most individuals know about the history that came before them.
I could take artist out of your statement and put blacksmith in and it would be difficult to tell if this was wrote in 1890.
Everyone seems to fight automation in an individual/industry battle rather at the society level. We keep measuring our worth based on work and when we finally run out of work we're going to have a problem.
"We keep measuring our worth based on work and when we finally run out of work we're going to have a problem."
Yeah, because work pays the bills. Guess what happens when you automate faster than social policy changes? More unemployed artists than blacksmiths. Also people resist change when it threatens their way of life. It's almost like the luddites resisting automation are saying slow down automation people "when we finally run out of work we're going to have a problem".
Unfortunately the luddites were not very effective at slowing down the technology. And with the modern police state being more aligned with wealth and corporate interests the general outlook is "the problem is coming at us full speed".
This is not an artist problem, this is an everyone problem that is unavoidable. Of course here in the US we're playing right versus left instead of a few trillionaires will own everything versus the starving huddled masses that this path seems to be leading to.
I agree.