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Automated and autonomous systems are becoming more prevalent
and capable of doing more things. These systems will continue to change the way
we produce products, how we provide services, and how they are distributed.
Automation also has the potential of creating a workless
society. In a world of automation, complete with robots with artificial
intelligence, no one will have a job to earn the money to pay for products/services.
This means there’s a need to begin transforming society to
be ready to accept a world absent of work, wealth, and other norms that today we
associate with life. Transformation unavoidably will lead to a moneyless
economy that will solve the problem of unemployment, and most, if not all of
our world’s problems.
However, as we move through the necessary steps to a
moneyless society, everyone on technological unemployment should be able to
live comfortably as long as there is sharing of the abundant wealth produced by
technological advances. On the other hand, “if machine-produced wealth is not
shared, technology will drive ever-increasing inequality,” according
to physicist Stephen Hawking.
However, no one should take the position that it’s not
possible. In light of technological advances in automation, it should be
evident that eventually automated and autonomous systems one day will force
everyone out of work. A good historical example is artisan weavers who lost
work following the implementation of mechanized looms.
Capitalism always benefits the winners. If you don’t win,
you lose.
An article in
TVP magazine (page 66) shows how a
workless society can potentially meet its needs for products, services, and all
those other things we have been accustom to acquiring with money.
Copyright © 2016 Horatio Green
