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Jobs are a signal of needs. If all production jobs are eliminated than that is a good thing. It clearly mean the end of scarcity as we know it. Economic as we know it would largely disappear.

If that happens, we humans can just relax and enjoy life as it is. Sucking the system's resourcewhile robots produce ever more stuff for us to consume.

Jobs are not the end to itself. Rather, they are signals that tells us the demands of individuals in a world of scarce input. If robots multiply that input until it reach a level where humans cannot possibly consume all for many years, than it is a good thing.



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