The Wealthy Elite, Their robots and our future usefulness to them.

blinding

If/When the Wealthy Elite get robots to do all their desires/work and so on, what will that wealthy elite to do with the ordinary Josephines/ Joes.

You would have to be a bit worried that they might consider us a bit costly to keep for their amusement.

Is it time to build a bunker and make tinfoil hats ! ? !:eek::eek:

JustShon

Line the bunker with tinfoil, just to be safe!

Lyaiera

Tinfoil bunkers. I can take my tinfoil hat off when I'm home then.

JustShon

Lyaiera wrote: »

Tinfoil bunkers. I can take my tinfoil hat off when I'm home then.

Great minds think alike

blinding

JustShon wrote: »

Line the bunker with tinfoil, just to be safe!

Thats an excellent idea and I could also buy shares in Tinfoil producing companies.

Its all good:p

The_Valeyard

Its okay, we will program the robots to kill all the wealthy elites and take their place. Then same robots kill us, for becoming the wealthy elite.

Duggy747

Make tinfoil out of bunkers.

Anyways, the robots are going to enslave us all in the end and keep us in their human zoos.

Arsemageddon

I'm saving up to buy a Sexbot-9000 model making plain girls with very low self esteem will become obsolete to me.

kneemos

Use us for footstools,make us fight for food,organ banks,chimney sweepers,shoot us for sport from their horses.No end of uses.

Your Face

Save us Alex Jones.

Ush1

Who's going to buy the stuff the wealthy elite produce to keep the wealthy elite, wealthy and elite?

blinding

Ush1 wrote: »

Who's going to buy the stuff the wealthy elite produce to keep the wealthy elite, wealthy and elite?

They will probably programme other robots to do that:eek:

They may actually have done this already and we haven't noticed :eek::eek:

Robot consumers anybody/everybody:eek::eek:

FalconGirl

I work in business change. A lot of organisations the last few years are streamlining their operations and using automated solutions where deemed fit to find efficiencies. This is leading to a surplus of FTE's required. It's happening very fast and I would worry about the people who have not copped onto this. They'll get left behind.

I certainly can't see large corporations sharing their savings with those who have been pushed out of a job.

Prediction: A lot of people are f**ked!

Ush1

blinding wrote: »

They will probably programme other robots to do that:eek:

They may actually have done this already and we haven't noticed :eek::eek:

Robot consumers anybody/everybody:eek::eek:

If it's all robots controlling the money it's a pointless exercise. Business works by taking money from someone else, not passing your money around and it coming back to you.

The Backwards Man

If you're living in Ireland, you are the wealthy elite.

henryporter

The wealthy elite Luas drivers will have all that time on their hands to spend all that money they are hoping to earn while robots drive the trams

NoCrackHaving

FalconGirl wrote: »

I work in business change. A lot of organisations the last few years are streamlining their operations and using automated solutions where deemed fit to find efficiencies. This is leading to a surplus of FTE's required. It's happening very fast and I would worry about the people who have not copped onto this. They'll get left behind.

I certainly can't see large corporations sharing their savings with those who have been pushed out of a job.

Prediction: A lot of people are f**ked!

I honestly think the amount of people who aren't aware of how rapidly robotics and automation is going to render a huge number of jobs obsolete within the next decade if not sooner is completely baffling. The 4th Industrial Revolution is upon us and people need to wake up to the fact.

NoCrackHaving

henryporter wrote: »

The wealthy elite Luas drivers will have all that time on their hands to spend all that money they are hoping to earn while robots drive the trams

Self driving trains are already commonplace (Docklands Light Railway), the likes of on street trams like the LUAS are only 4-5 years behind at this stage (maybe sooner, not really that up to date on driverless public transport).

beach_walker

I was in McDonalds recently (for a hangover cure of a Quarter Pounder and strawberry milkshake) and this particular one offered automated ordering. I've seen it before years ago but this was much more impressive, go up and order whatever. Specify where you're sitting and it's brought down to you. Most people were opting for this and it was obvious there were fewer staff working than you'd have in a normal cashier/til setup. Made me wonder about what kind of jobs will be available to students/young'ins in the future (how many of us did our time in fastfood joints or at the til in Dunnes?).

Anyway I bow before our new wealthy elites, their automated fastfood joints and (presumed) fleet of predator drones ready to annihilate anyone who questions the new order with a precision hellfire missile strike.

blinding

beach_walker wrote: »

I was in McDonalds recently (for a hangover cure of a Quarter Pounder and strawberry milkshake) and this particular one offered automated ordering. I've seen it before years ago but this was much more impressive, go up and order whatever. Specify where you're sitting and it's brought down to you. Most people were opting for this and it was obvious there were fewer staff working than you'd have in a normal cashier/til setup. Made me wonder about what kind of jobs will be available to students/young'ins in the future (how many of us did our time in fastfood joints or at the til in Dunnes?).

Anyway I bow before our new wealthy elites, their automated fastfood joints and (presumed) fleet of predator drones ready to annihilate anyone who questions the new order with a precision hellfire missile strike.

Your remarks will be duly noted and if its considered that you must be one of the first annihilated then it shall be (I am channelling my inner computer master here)

Anyway ! Have a nice Day:p

rolion

Humans Need Not Apply :

gramar

blinding wrote: »

If/When the Wealthy Elite get robots to do all their desires/work and so on, what will that wealthy elite to do with the ordinary Josephines/ Joes.

You would have to be a bit worried that they might consider us a bit costly to keep for their amusement.

Is it time to build a bunker and make tinfoil hats ! ? !:eek::eek:

Don't be fooled, the wealthy elite are onto us and in a cunning move have taken the tin out of the tinfoil. So we've been foiled as it were.

Joshua J

FalconGirl wrote: »

I work in business change. A lot of organisations the last few years are streamlining their operations and using automated solutions where deemed fit to find efficiencies. This is leading to a surplus of FTE's required. It's happening very fast and I would worry about the people who have not copped onto this. They'll get left behind.

I certainly can't see large corporations sharing their savings with those who have been pushed out of a job.

Prediction: A lot of people are f**ked!

Zombie apocalypse?.

endacl

I'm the wealthy elite. T'will be grand. Chill.

jamesbere

Your Face wrote: »

Save us Alex Jones.

If your talking about the one show, then she can save me any day

KomradeBishop

Basically the premise of this thread, is that there won't be enough private sector jobs for people in the future.

Well...employ them with public money instead...even if you almost totally automate even the public sector, the amount of work left to be done is still effectively infinite, in fields such as scientific research (which has its best success as a publicly funded effort).

It's weird the way people don't see how out of date, todays economic views are - you'd think people would finally begin to realize that, once they start thinking of issues like an AI/automation singularity - but people are so stuck in their ways economically, that instead of seeing a massive gigantic rise in production and collective wealth as a good thing, they view it as a disaster...

It's not the coming automation/AI revolution that's a disaster - it's peoples outdated economic views and total inability to comprehend any change in those views; the solutions to these 'problems' are staggeringly simple really.

Capt'n Midnight

Lyaiera wrote: »

Tinfoil bunkers. I can take my tinfoil hat off when I'm home then.

Tinfoil hats are parabolic reflectors that concentrate the guberment frequencies. Sure ya might as well go around wearing a SKY dish like a sombrero for all the good it'll do.
http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/tinfoil-hats-actually-amplify.html

And lining the bunker with tinfoil will either make a good ground plane for any antennas they've snuck in or more likely as a corner cube reflector so they can see how the mind rays are being adsorbed.

pffff amateurs