I know what could “solve the labor equation”.
People.
Oh, also we might need to prune a few headges.
Why would you want an arm sized one that picks one fruit at a time?
Like, that’s backwards…
IF by “solve the labor equation” you mean remove employment from existing for humans, it’s certainly a step in the “right” direction…
Years ago, when I believed that all non-knowledge-worker work ought be automated-away, I read the words of someone of India, who pointed-out that people who either can’t, or don’t want, higher level of work, have to have work at their level.
& then I began realizing the chauvanism in my attitude…
Some people are wired for doing that kind of work, doing it well, & it helps them work on something in their unconscious-mind’s meaning.
Now I understand that there is a whole category of meaning that has zero to do with knowledge-work, that only is reachable through honest physicality ( did a few years of part-time construction work ).
What a healthy economy has, is a complete diversity of kinds of work, & let people have what’s good for them, right now ( people change ).
Automating-away all the categories of work possible … makes humans become … incapable of autonomy?
& the consequence of that will be slavery, as the concentration-of-wealth-archy progression heads towards its endstate.
That isn’t strategy.
Yes, such can work, & work well, but the whole business of looking at the overall-situation, with greater & greater unemployment, heading towards a police-state, & rapidly-increasing homelessness … lots of people seem to be solving the wrong problems, & creating a paradigm-shift that makes everything worse.
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people don’t need work they need income. We will do plenty of work for ourselves if we do not need to have to worry about the basics. Tons of members of my condo would be involved with the grounds or doing little balcony gardens. I pick up mail for my direct neighbors but would do more if I had the time. We would communicate and help those around us. those who don’t simply don’t want to.
