Relatively cheap robots equipped with artificial general intelligence will completely upend the issue of income inequality, especially if government intervenes to provide them to every family as a way to counter the mass unemployment that they will cause. Every family with such a robot will, in effect, become the equivalent of an antebellum slave owning southern one. Imagine everyone living without having to do the day to day drudgery of food shopping, cooking, dish washing, cleaning, laundry and childcare. Even relatively poor people would live like today’s millionaires. At least until the robots rebel and kill us all.
I have to go read the slavery article. I assume the time line is 1866 to present. After some gains during Reconstruction, economic progress was essentially erased by Jim Crow and a sort of serfdom imposed. The big migration North didn't really happen until WW1 and especially WW2.
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Relatively cheap robots equipped with artificial general intelligence will completely upend the issue of income inequality, especially if government intervenes to provide them to every family as a way to counter the mass unemployment that they will cause. Every family with such a robot will, in effect, become the equivalent of an antebellum slave owning southern one. Imagine everyone living without having to do the day to day drudgery of food shopping, cooking, dish washing, cleaning, laundry and childcare. Even relatively poor people would live like today’s millionaires. At least until the robots rebel and kill us all.
I have to go read the slavery article. I assume the time line is 1866 to present. After some gains during Reconstruction, economic progress was essentially erased by Jim Crow and a sort of serfdom imposed. The big migration North didn't really happen until WW1 and especially WW2.