Technological Unemployment - Job Loss & Society Collapse Inevitable - Jacque Fresco

[CaasiU999]

Thus begins the great exodus...... the upper-class will no longer have need of the lower classes, so what happens? One more world war to eliminate the middle and lower classes

[yowyOw69]

@CaasiU999 Middle and lower classes constitute 99% of the world population. So the answer your question is "no, there can't be a world war to eliminate us". What the elite can do is try to hold on and manipulate us in order to kill each other. And that's exactly what they are doing in other countries. In the USA, they are dividing us. And they are doing a hell of a job. But, at the end of this journey, they will fail and we shall win and regain our freedom back.

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[ProfessorNicki]

I really want to talk to this guy before he passes. He offers so much to society yet nobody knows who he is.

[Banzay20]

@ProfessorNicki Yeah! Me to!

[SuperKevinheart]

what if machines develop human feelings like us? Lets say that they become more complex and sophisticated and begin to reason for themselves then what do we do? Then we will be fucked for sure. What about cloning? Will cloning take place in the VP?

[RoboHardy]

@SuperKevinheart Watchingtoo much I Robot. When the time comes for such developments in machines, humans will be more knowledgable and advanced to deal with the technology and use it correctly. The way Hollywood depicts these issues is stupid because they insert today's man in tomorrows world.

[Banzay20]

@SuperKevinheart I think Jacques would say -Thats Hollywood maaaaan! ;) And maybe his right Im not an robot expert

[SuperKevinheart]

@Banzay20 lol having a robot as my gf have u seen the movie cherry2000??

[Banzay20]

@SuperKevinheart hahahah.. cherry2000 I looked at the trailer and that was enough, and now Im starting to think you were sarcastic before.

Hollywood should be the new religion and take over the whole world then it for sure would be a nice place to live in ;oP lol

[thesportsguy10]

He speaks complete sense.... + the girl on d couch is Beautiful!

[SuperKevinheart]

@thesportsguy10 get her phone number when the system collapses.

[SuperKevinheart]

@thesportsguy10 lol she will be very creative in the VP that's for sure

[dudefromtheearth]

What can I say? He is so right! What can be done? Make a law against advancement? I use to hate machines and say they are taking over but now I know other wise. They can be used for good. I've really put thought into wither this is right or not and more so its seems its the right thing to do.

[Treadlightlyful]

30% of all manufacturing jobs in the US were lost in the last decade ...and the new jobs are coming from where? Corporations have adapted with the prime directive of profit & margins by cost cutting, share buy backs & efficiency measures all of which do not include hiring...the opposite .

[JoeTube27]

@VictorphoenixDMvault . Well said. It will take time and a lot of ups and downs to deal with.

[JoeTube27]

New industries will emerge X amount of years from now that No 1 person could even think of, thus employing people. But it is true the better technology is the more efficient we are hence we need less to do more (capital and human capital) so over all we will need less of a workforce in the future, but then again new markets never dreamed of could pop up and employ more, but who knows, both sides make valid points.

[curingaging00]

He is absolutely 100% correct on the issue, because in the coming decades, surgery will be performed my machines, machines will have the ability to be accurate on even a cellular level, something that the human hand just is incapable of doing.

[weses1]

that girl is very pretty

[johnnyblueshoez]

grammpa needs a girlfriend

[duncan7599]

If folks don't have jobs and money, who will by all the goods and services being produced by automation? Capitalism is doomed!

[Markitos203]

Looks like a school trip, and the only one fascinated by jacque 's wisdom is the chick on the left.. sad sad sad

[renoo27]

If only people can just let go of their religious $ sign.

[mixingart]

Movie theaters are in the process in converting to digital cinema. The automated digital projectors are putting some film-projectionists out of work. I'm one of those film-projectionists. I've been verbally harassed and bullied out of my job by my district managers. Now I'm trying my best to find a new job. I just miss my projectionist job and I wish I could get it back, because I truly loved it, but I think those days might be long gone now. I will keep trying though.

[axe863]

@mixingart Omg... I wish we had as much employment as before the horse- drawn carriage was replaced by the invention of the car.  LOOOL Before I came on youtube, I thought that the luddite fallacy was long dead...apparently not everyone knows economics.

[chadberry75]

i have not seen a wal-mart greeter in a long time...

[hlyleh]

He's not talking about societies collapse, he's talking about societies evolution.

[u0867618]

He makes profound points in such simple language, awesome!

[yourmajezty]

hes 100% right. walmarts are doing self check out now.

[hlyleh]

@yourmajezty Well my Wal-mart got rid of self-check outs :( I like them because it makes it so much faster.

[yourmajezty]

@hlyleh my walmart kept them after many complaints. out of 22 registers, i think 8 are self check out. and the movie theaters have automated ticket machines now.

[cybersphere]

@yourmajezty McDonald's Europe is currently testing a touchscreen system that eliminates all counter staff. The system is faster to use and less error prone. It's inevitable that these systems will be rolled out internationally, displacing millions of cashiers. There is no industry that can re-employ all these human resources. We need an economic system where EVERYONE benefits from technological advance, not just an elite few.

[herbalpeace]

@yourmajezty I also though about this , it's getting bad if even a cashier can be replaced by a robot.

heck they even got machines that can preform surgery

[Banzay20]

@yourmajezty In sweden to :) / but sometimes a real person control that you have scanned all groceries they take random groceries not all and it happens like 1 out 10 times maybe / they still need some cashiers but not as many / i wonder when mc donalds and that kind of restaurant are going to automated, they would already be but for some reason their not?!

[kaushiksays]

Compound this problem with the rising population.

[Anothercoilgun]

Good upload.

[TommyTurntables1]

Money is a form of slavery :-(

[MillionthUsername]

@TommyTurntables1 How can money be slavery? It's a medium of exchange. Slavery is the oppression of one human being by another.

[Winterwolf00]

@MillionthUsername It is slavery, simply more subtle then the whip.

[MillionthUsername]

@Winterwolf00 Money is a commodity that people trade. It is a medium of exchange.

It enables us to voluntarily trade with people the world over.

Slavery is coercion backed by physical force and/or the threat of physical force.

[snakeboy742]

@MillionthUsername what happens if you have non you cant get food , water a home eta were's the voluntarism? if you dont have money you get nothing , try it and see how far you go then get back to me on " its not slavery" slavery is any form of forced servitude

[mrkurt13]

@MillionthUsername

It is slavery when a group of people control the money and its not a common resource among all. When a group of people can print money and charge interest on that money and lend out 10x more money than they actually have, it shifts the system over to slavery. You dont even understand what you are defending.

[MillionthUsername]

@mrkurt13 Maybe you should try reading what people write before accusing them of defending things that they have actually opposed for more than 20 years. 

[TheJoshJman]

WORD UP.

[Jake200921]

human labor is nothing but slavery when the technology bypasses the need for human labor. we should be putting all our energy in finding cures for diseases, cancer ect... anything less is just not enough.

[TheKisa93]

look at that hot chick falling asleep