80 Million Jobs

Drudge reported yesterday that by a certain date 80 million human jobs could be taken over by robots. I believe the jobs lost were American jobs.

Should this hellish condition come about, human adults would have no justification for living. We are defined by the work we do. No work, no sense of worth, no wealth created, nothing produced, little self-development--a recipe for social and  cultural disaster on so many levels.

If robots become alive, intelligent beings, and they will sooner or later, they may well decide that the slave species might as well push the drone-worthless, impotent master race aside, and just take over everything.

Far-fetched? Maybe. My hunch is that the future fairly soon will depart from any similarity to the past.

To compete and fare well, we must cast aside group-living and lazy non-individuation, to be replaced  by active, smart, vigorous lives of individual-living and maverizing. Such a transition is not only desirable, it may well be our key to remaining competitive and able to survive going forward.