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you mean they can do jobs we employ machines to do these days?
See THIS is the rotten root of the problem of this whole thing: we KNOW there are people, and always will be, who have learning disabilities, who have IQs of 70, who will never learn advanced C++ programming and therefore win one of these jobs of the future, AND YET we keep tumbling, wantonly and deliberately, toward a future of AI and maximised automation that will render such people irrelevant, unfulfilled and permanently unemployed. And then have the temerity to complain about "welfare cheats" and "dole bludgers" when we know full-well the true cause of their permanent incapacitation.
In years of yore, people like this contributed to society just as much as you or I. They cleaned the shop, or swept the streets, or they worked for their brother in the fish shop wrapping the fish, or whatever else was within their capacity to do. Forrest Gump and Bubba are classic examples of this, people who were still able to contribute, just like the rest of us, whom society knew we less capable, but was determined not to let starve by doing nothing. They earned an income, they paid their taxes, their contributed to their own upkeep, just like the rest of us.
We ought mourn for the downies being aborted out of existence, because the spina bifidas are next, and after them the slow and intellectually disabled, and when, in the end, automation, robots and AI render half the lawyers, scientists, doctors, nurses and office workers redundant, and you need an IQ of 180 to actually hold down a job – which will require a 250% commitment, mind, because everyone else has been forcibly retired – it will be all of us "normies" that are rendered disposable, and there'll be a test for markers in intelligence, and most of you reading this post wouldn't have been allowed to be born.
>First they came for the downies, and I did not speak out — because I was not a downie.
>Then they came for the physically disabled, and I did not speak out — because I was not physically disabled.
>Then they came for the dummies, and I did not speak out — because I was not a dummy.
>Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.