Back to episode — Episode 1817 Scott Adams - It's Time For President Harris To Take Over For Decomposing Joe Biden
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de that unnecessary, and we basically removed 80 percent of all the employment on Earth. But it didn't make any difference. We were fine. We just found other things to do. Now, do you remember — if you're a certain age, you might remember that there were predictions that television, you know, the invention of television would make the radio go away, because, you know, who's going to want to liste…
← Previous segment →make us a paperless office? So when you went to work you'd have your computer but no paper. It wouldn't need any paper. Yeah, let me show you my paperless office here. Here's my paperless office. The paper's all over it. Papers, papers. Yup, it's 2022.
Do you know what's the best way to handle some things? Paper. Do you know why I printed out my notes on paper? Because it works better. It works better. Basically we are terrible at predicting what's going to happen with these large societal things. And also keep in mind that if robots take our jobs, they also might make the cost of living drop like crazy. So we can see the cost of energy approaching zero with fusion someday. We can see the cost of labor approaching zero because machines wi
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ll do it all. So maybe you don't have the same access to the same job you could have had before, but would you care? What if everything is almost free? Yeah, there's no — let's say there's no delivery costs anymore because you just 3D print what you want. I mean, you could imagine a world where you could live on a thousand dollars a year. You could imagine living on a thousand dollars a year and h…
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