All people do, every day, is structure their time: the thing you do in the morning, the thing you do in the afternoon, the thing you do in the evening, sleep, and repeat.
For a sense of well-being, you have to feel useful. Even if you have a million idle things to do, if you feel useless, you get depressed.
And how are people going to eat if they are useless? Do we tax the few who run the machines to hell to give charity to the useless? That sounds like a recipe for trouble, because they will still be useless, and the ones who are taxed at 90 percent rates, or whatever, to pay for all this will be furious.
What is the solution? I am at a loss. Jordan Peterson suggests that everyone with an IQ of less than 100 will be useless. That is half the people on the planet. The article above suggests it will be MUCH MORE than that, since even smart people like accountants, radiologists and market analysts will also be useless. In fact, the suggestion implies that only 10 percent of people or so will still be useful.
Unless those 10 percent of people are very careful to find things for the other 90 percent to do, the 90 percent will do something very bad to the 10 percent, as happened in the French Revolution, when the people had no bread to eat.
The smart people had better start thinking right now what the less smart people will be doing in the future, and come up with some suggestions how they can be useful, otherwise, there's serious trouble ahead for our children's children.
While we wait and hope for a solution, we can always turn to the wisdom of the evergreen and wonderful Irving Berlin:
"There may be trouble ahead
But while there's music and moonlight and love and romance
Let's face the music and dance."
These useless people could do lots of things with their time. Play with their kids, jog, relax, paint, take up a hobby or two. We need to think outside the box. Right now we are so used to rewarding people based on economic productivity that it is hard to imagine how to cope with an age of abundance. Imagine the reward pool on Steem being split equally among all users and then all goods and services priced using only Steem. One wouldn’t even have to transfer the Steem: when a user uses Steem to buy something, it could simply disappear. As long as prices reflect scarcity of resources, this could work.
What jobs do you think those smart 10% do and will be doing?
They will be designing virtual reality games for the 90 percent to play, in which the 90 percent dream that they have jobs and families deep inside a Matrix.
Meanwhile the 10percent will also design invulnerable robot bodies, to house their giant brains, so that they will be ready for when the revolution comes lol.
Scary shit man!
I'd love to be part of that 10% hahaha!
The remaining 90% seems like sheeple :O
Or rather I'd try turning those 90% into 10% if it is possible.
Lol yeah.
A more serious answer to what jobs the 10 percent will be doing can be found by thinking about Steemit.
Machines aren't good at creativity, for example, making people laugh, entertaining, singing, art.
They also aren't good at coming up with original ideas, like the author of this article.
So artists and scientists, leaders and decision makers, doctors and carers, all have the best chance of not being phased out by machines.
All repetitive jobs will be coded first.
But make no mistake, after this phase is complete, Phase 3 is Skynet and The Matrix. You will probably store your tokens in your brain, think a thought, and it will become reality, as machines serve you in return for deducting a token or two. ;)