/natsoc/ - National Socialism

Automation may make human factory lines a thing of the past, but it won't be able to take jobs away from doctors, lawyers, the military, or the government. We'll probably just have to channel people into fields that require creative thinking or human participation. Management of people and automated services will also require the human element.

Logistically, automation will require the maintenance of a much larger power and resource network, which will open up jobs in many sectors.

The answer, really, is just further development of our educational systems, so as to drive people into fields that cannot be automated. That, and more militarisation, along the lines of public service.

In reality, complete automation will hit mostly nonwhite countries, since the West does barely any manufacturing. We'll just have to deal with a billion Asians who don't have jobs any more because Whitey invented machines to replace them.

>>1770
Hmm that maybe the case for a period of but more and more things will become automated, diagnosing illnesses has already been taken over by machines as well as lawyers sorting through papers.

>>1771
Until true artificial intelligence is developed, there will always be some work to be done by humans, and even at the point of total automation, there will still be a human element. However, that point is far away.

This future, however, is unlikely, given the current state of affairs. More probably, the logistical problems facing large scale automation will be almost insurmountable, as, without transferring to the resource-based economy system, monetary transaction will become near-worthless. As we all know, without money, the system collapses, as the powers rely on it to keep the masses placated. Without materialistic greed or higher purpose, people won't be controllable to the same degree they are now. It's entirely possible that, without the influence of esoteric philosophies (looking at you, NatSoc) the population may end up plugged into VR systems, and so won't need anything physical except basic nutrition, detaching the completely from the physical world - the ultimate control.

Under NatSoc, I'm sure there will be some cause for people to rally around, preventing them from resting on their laurels, developing a taste for paraphilia, or some other form of societal decay. However, this is all just conjecture - no current political system really knows what to do about automation. Only time will tell.