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I’m in a park. The grass is being mown by a robot. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We thought the rider fell off or something and it was going to crash. Then it turned and kept mowing. Park Roomba!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

...And now with even more people lining up for those jobs because others have been taken by automation. That and in order to make a living you need to do at least two jobs per household.

This doesn't allow for any time or energy to skill up into anything else and forces a positive feedback loop in keeping people in this bracket.

Edit: I've just read through some of your other comments and I want to say something about post scarcity. We can definitely approximate what will happen in the distant future by looking at current and past trends. Human nature is the constant.

We can look at how many unskilled jobs are created as a result of automation. From what I can see, the number of unskilled jobs created from automation is in the negative, meaning that less unskilled jobs are created from automation.

What systems are put in place for those without jobs? The trend is abandonment or exploitation. We're currently in a glut of job seekers far exceeding jobs available both in skilled and unskilled areas.

But I digress... This was originally about an automated lawnmower being mildly interesting, which it is.