Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Geek Talk & Media
The Orville Season Two - Thoughts?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7553836" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Utopian/post-scarcity economics is only now being discussed seriously, in part because of the impacts of technology on the <em>job</em> market. Right now, the discussion don’t have much in the way of solutions since they’re just now describing the problems and recording the effects.</p><p></p><p>The first real warning sign <em>I </em>can think of was a circa 2012 (I think) prototype modular robot that could be programmed to do @200 manufacturing jobs for the price of 5 years’ labor of an Indonesian factory worker.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward to today, we have driverless automobiles threatening any job involving driving for a wage, cashierless retail stores, specialized software that can generate basic legal documents for a growing number of jurisdictions, and medical diagnostic “AI” programs that are about 60% accurate compared to actual MDs...and improving.</p><p></p><p>A 2017 article estimated 800 million worldwide jobs are in danger of being eliminated by technology in the near future- mostly concentrated in modernized countries. Another (from Forbes, as I recall) claims tech will eliminate 6% of the jobs in the USA by 2030. </p><p></p><p>These trends are more likely to accelerate than decelerate.</p><p></p><p>So the question you have to ask is, what good is money when increasing numbers of humans can’t find a job?</p><p></p><p>The original Star Trek episode “The Squire of Gothos” has a scene in which Kirk rejects the temptation of piles of gemstones as worthless baubles, claiming the Federation had been creating them for years. As of the <strong>1980s</strong>, you could buy a rod of synthetic corundum (ruby, sapphire) more than a foot long for @$50. Those rods had clear indicators that they were lab grown. Better ones from that era were indistinguishable from the natural ones. Manmade diamonds- not stimulants like CZ ot YAG, but actual diamonds- are a fraction of the costs of natural ones, but still have telltale signs they’re artificial. With enough time...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7553836, member: 19675"] Utopian/post-scarcity economics is only now being discussed seriously, in part because of the impacts of technology on the [I]job[/I] market. Right now, the discussion don’t have much in the way of solutions since they’re just now describing the problems and recording the effects. The first real warning sign [I]I [/I]can think of was a circa 2012 (I think) prototype modular robot that could be programmed to do @200 manufacturing jobs for the price of 5 years’ labor of an Indonesian factory worker. Fast forward to today, we have driverless automobiles threatening any job involving driving for a wage, cashierless retail stores, specialized software that can generate basic legal documents for a growing number of jurisdictions, and medical diagnostic “AI” programs that are about 60% accurate compared to actual MDs...and improving. A 2017 article estimated 800 million worldwide jobs are in danger of being eliminated by technology in the near future- mostly concentrated in modernized countries. Another (from Forbes, as I recall) claims tech will eliminate 6% of the jobs in the USA by 2030. These trends are more likely to accelerate than decelerate. So the question you have to ask is, what good is money when increasing numbers of humans can’t find a job? The original Star Trek episode “The Squire of Gothos” has a scene in which Kirk rejects the temptation of piles of gemstones as worthless baubles, claiming the Federation had been creating them for years. As of the [B]1980s[/B], you could buy a rod of synthetic corundum (ruby, sapphire) more than a foot long for @$50. Those rods had clear indicators that they were lab grown. Better ones from that era were indistinguishable from the natural ones. Manmade diamonds- not stimulants like CZ ot YAG, but actual diamonds- are a fraction of the costs of natural ones, but still have telltale signs they’re artificial. With enough time... [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Geek Talk & Media
The Orville Season Two - Thoughts?
Top