Getting rid of everyone displaced by automation would create a process which would lead to human extinction in the end. Of course we do have to get our birth control up to an adequate level, but I see no reason to kill people. It would be better to have people work towards discovering all the spiritual, intellectual, artistic, and other knowledge which would make it possible to advance all humans to the most advanced state of consciousness possible.
Of course, one of the science fiction dreams is to move people into huge orbital colonies in space, which would solve the population problem. There are enough metals in the asteroids, a very large number of cubic kilometers if iron, aluminum, etc. so that would not be a problem. However, it is so expensive at present to lift mass into orbit that we couldn't afford to send the first factories into space, and large numbers of humans. One current cost for sending a human into orbit I recently read was 100 million dollars. If it were to cost 100 million dollars per person, it would be a bit difficult to transport most of humanity to orbital colonies in space. But if we could get the cost of lifting mass to orbit way down, we could do it. I can't predict. It depends on what new technology we discover in the future. Jim --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > Since I have heard a number of interviews with people advocating > > stipends due to the decreasing jobs market I went on a search for some > > of them. Here's one proposal and the author has done his homework on > > the subject: > > http://marshallbrain.com/25000.htm > > > > More detailed information on the impact of technology on the workforce: > > http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm > > > snip, > Maybe, with the population reduction proponents working on it, > there wont be any problem after all. N. >
