Can you envisage a future world where humans no longer had to work (they could do some part-time work if they enjoyed it or wanted extra money, but did not have to to get by)? Can you see the positives of a world where computers, robots & machines (which are eventually moslty owned by the state) make and sell products and services earning enough money to pay everyone's basic bills (groceries, tax, rent, water & electricity)? What if ...
2007-08-15 09:21:13 · 8 answers · asked by Wise Kai 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Have you ever seen the movie The Matrix, or any of the Terminator movies? That is what happens when machines take over. We would be enslaved or outright pushed out of existence. I'd rather work than have a bunch of thinking robots and machines around.
Just kidding...
That would be interesting, but I think most people would just get too bored with sitting around and having nothing to do. Plus, the rich will never go for it. They'll ask why they get the same as everyone else, not more? Sounds like Communism to me. A good idea (according to the Commies), but impossible to implement.
2007-08-15 09:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by ganzhimself 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Property will not be generated withou the human labour, may bephysical or intellectual. Goods and services are the result of endless human activities only. The machiens are only tools of human beings say prehistoric, historic or present generations. Hence the condition of machines earn money to pay everyone's bills doesn't arise. The condition may happen only on doom's day where no body will be there requiring anything.
2007-08-19 01:37:22 · answer #2 · answered by vr n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The state wouldn't have the money to build the machines without taxing the people who would no longer be generating income to tax due to the machines.
Perpetual motion on a larger scale.
2007-08-15 19:58:00 · answer #3 · answered by Jay 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its getting that way more and more as development proceeds. It is very likely in the future no one will need to work if they don't wish to and still live the good life. The first thing that needs to be done is good engineering. For a long time poor engineering has been retarding progress in the direction of better machines to do the work. But, in the future good engineering will be practiced by mankind.
2007-08-15 16:44:06 · answer #4 · answered by jim m 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i have to agree with Rob. Also machines break down. Only the rich would have the money too fix them, the middle class and poor would have to take out loans from the rich.
It really wouldn't change anything. greed always finds away into everything.
2007-08-15 16:33:15 · answer #5 · answered by ball 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is what they promised us in the 70s...."by the end of the Century we would all be leading a life of leisure"....turned out to be a load of bollocks!
2007-08-16 05:15:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes what if.We would turn into robots has our brain would eventually stop thinking.We need out brain to stay fresh & keep learning other wise we would become zombies.
2007-08-21 11:30:21 · answer #7 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this would be just another market where your income would be determined by how many robots you owned.
If it was owned by the state, then money would have no value eventually
2007-08-15 16:28:54 · answer #8 · answered by Source:Independent 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋