What Use Do Humans Have in Transhuman Space? - Page 3

lachimba · 05-01-2023, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Is there a single job in the TS setting that wouldn't be better done by a machine?

I might be misremembering, but I thought there was something by David Pulver said there were still some jobs that people's physical bodies were still better/more efficient for.

If I had to guess some?

Making beds and some other domestic labor tasks.
Caring, showering and dressing other people, nursing babies and the like.
'Handmade' goods.
Painting, maintenance etc at the least quality control part of the task of physically doing something the robots or microbots failed

Nelson Cunnington · 06-14-2023, 07:56 PM

Of course, in the ultra-capitalist nations of the United States and China in the 22nd Century, all must work to support the ruling classes in their acquisitive and wasteful life-styles, so that the working classes can be robbed of the value of their labor and be demoralised by the conditions of that labor.

To this end, the least productive in the system must be constantly culled by natural disaster, infrastructure accidents, political riots, crime, neglect, and so forth, so that the working classes will accept their lot rather than risk becoming unemployed with no access to health and police insurance, while also on the constant edge of losing their meagre "universal" "benefit" if they can't find — in an unreasonably short period of time — one of the artificially scarce "jobs" the system provides.

Here in the TSA, we recognise the essential dignity of economic labor, and that of the other forms of occupation that contribute to all aspects of culture beyond the economic, and we ensure that none go hungry, or go without shelter, or health-care, or education in practical and artistic skills, while also ensuring that the most able contribute to those less lucky in circumstance or fortune by means of progressive economic limits on wealth acquisition.

Those blessed by not requiring fixed physical bodies must contribute more than those of us who are merely corporeal, of course, since they require less. As our political ancestors said, "de chacun selon sa capacité, à chacun selon ses œuvres." A modern economic system that does not support the populace in all their forms in all their works is not fit for purpose.

—Wulandari Tabuni, Junior Assistant Minister for Economic Translation (Nanosocialist-Democrat), and Dangdut-Jazz-fusion musician, Indonesia

06-14-2023, 07:56 PM	#22
Nelson Cunnington Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Cheltenham	Re: What Use Do Humans Have in Transhuman Space? Of course, in the ultra-capitalist nations of the United States and China in the 22nd Century, all must work to support the ruling classes in their acquisitive and wasteful life-styles, so that the working classes can be robbed of the value of their labor and be demoralised by the conditions of that labor. To this end, the least productive in the system must be constantly culled by natural disaster, infrastructure accidents, political riots, crime, neglect, and so forth, so that the working classes will accept their lot rather than risk becoming unemployed with no access to health and police insurance, while also on the constant edge of losing their meagre "universal" "benefit" if they can't find — in an unreasonably short period of time — one of the artificially scarce "jobs" the system provides. Here in the TSA, we recognise the essential dignity of economic labor, and that of the other forms of occupation that contribute to all aspects of culture beyond the economic, and we ensure that none go hungry, or go without shelter, or health-care, or education in practical and artistic skills, while also ensuring that the most able contribute to those less lucky in circumstance or fortune by means of progressive economic limits on wealth acquisition. Those blessed by not requiring fixed physical bodies must contribute more than those of us who are merely corporeal, of course, since they require less. As our political ancestors said, "de chacun selon sa capacité, à chacun selon ses œuvres." A modern economic system that does not support the populace in all their forms in all their works is not fit for purpose. —Wulandari Tabuni, Junior Assistant Minister for Economic Translation (Nanosocialist-Democrat), and Dangdut-Jazz-fusion musician, Indonesia __________________ "But if that's Nelson Cunnington, then I must be--" Last edited by Nelson Cunnington; 06-14-2023 at 08:16 PM.