Yes the statement you make here " Many contest the idea of technological unemployment and that it will be a problem". This seems like the setting for an end of the world sci fi thriller where everyone is debating if the world will end .. or the planetary orbit will shift and be destroyed lol. It just reminds me of something crazy like that.

So i was in walmart today. Walmart is my favorite example of this to use now.. I'm always looking at that last remaining cashier which i hardly ever go to. Usually do self checkouts. So i'm having this conversation with some random person.
This machine speeds pass us in Walmart that's cleaning the floor i have no idea what this is. I never seen this before but what it looked like was a machine that once had a seat for a human driver. .Now it has bands around the steering wheel and i guess some programming and it automatically is going around and around Walmart cleaning the floor. The odd thing is it seemed rigged up to do this lol. So not sure if this was augmented or if it was just a cheaper way to repurpose the floor cleaners. I thought it was interesting and it was so symbolic to me looking at this thing of how many workers will be displaced.

Ideas like the Fourth Industrial Revolution come to mind. Here's an interesting bit of information. Do you know that many people don't fully understand why we have Labor Day? That Labor Day was established due to automation displacing workers as well. We're often times familiar with the establishing of 40 hour work weeks and safety agencies. We're not generally aware of the massacres that occured due to automation and work conditions. Job loss and the chaos that was created as a result of it.

The National Guard had to roll in and actual ended up killing like 12 americans about job related stuff. So it's interesting that people just push pass that and go oh we got nothing to worry about". We will have a complete new industry of jobs like we always have.

So let me ask this question. Does this mean then that robotics and artificial intelligence will always be a step behind human beings? Is there any reason for us to believe the progression of ai should move relative in direct relation to the human worker. As to say, human beings are more like an advanced chimpanzee is it somehow reasonable to believe that a creature's who's brain capacity is limited by the size of the cranium lol. Is it reasonable to believe that the capacity of a machine in not just repetitive tasks but jobs of high cognitive association can't be replaced by a machine.

If we believe in the near future we're going to have artificial minds beign feed by data banks all over the world. Is it somehow reasonable to believe we're going to be able to compete. I think we overestimated the capacity of human beings. We're not that smart to the point other technological tools can't do many of the things we do better. They do and they more than likely will.

What type jobs are they speaking of will be left.. There are now ai programs that are moving to replace lawyers.. psychologist its not just the repetitive tasks anymore. It's not going to be just be the burger king worker or cashier or garbage man more. Are we all going to be Zoomba instructors.. Some say the arts will be left. I don't even know about that. We got ai that can not only compose and make better music in some cases.. It can paint works of art. They can even cgi generate pretty believable human actors in movies. I don't think in the near future they will even need actors and actresses.. i think they'll just be able to create a ai person lol.

i feel like addressing this problem over the blockchain in crypto is a softball pitch. It's totally unbelievable to me that this space doesn't see this clear and present danger. So i have to conclude several things. Either they aren't aware..or they think we'll navigate through it.. or they are impotent to do anything about it. In any event this will be a severe problem that needs to be addressed.

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