Gah! The robots are coming! The robots are coming! Actually the robots are here and have been for awhile now, and, they are getting better and better at doing our jobs. But I think I have a great idea to solve the problem.
If you want some more information about what I mean when I say the robots are here I have a youtube link you can watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk
With more and more robots getting better at the jobs we normally do, where does that leave us in the future? With a monetary system in place we all need to earn money in order to live and to survive, we may get a universal basic income implemented in the future but that is a long ways off and it will only cover a basic need.
My idea is that if we were to get a universal basic income it should start off with a robot for each household that we are responsible for. The robot goes out and works for us and we are responsible for maintaining it and upgrading it with the money it earns. Over time we may be able to purchase another type of robot that does a different type of job and earns us a little bit more money.
Lets say fully autonomous cars are out there driving around but not everyone can afford one, after a while of you saving up your other robots money you decide to purchase one, now it goes out and is used like a taxi cab, collecting fares and earning money for you, but in order to keep it working you are going to have to buy new tires, do regular maintenance on it, and upgrade its systems with the money it makes and if all things go well maybe you can buy a few more in the future and eventually have a fleet of them driving around.
There are more than just physical robots out there as well, there are digital robots that check algorithms online and robots that check those robot to make sure they are doing there jobs correctly. There are drones that deliver packages, there are GPS robots that track those packages, there are medical A.I. robots that continuously monitor a patients health, there is literally a robot or type of A.I. robot that will do almost any job, and if we lose our jobs to them then it should be us that is responsible for them.
If we had this type of system in place we would all have a lot more free time to do whatever we wanted while making money at the same time. There is a job for everybody out there in the form of taking care of your own personal robot.
The robots aren't coming they're here!
Scott Goerz
