alt Hacker NewsMenial tasks and gig workers aren't going away. If home robotics pans out, then those workers will have their wages suppressed which will prevent them from reinvesting into a college education.
Menial tasks and gig workers aren't going away. If home robotics pans out, then those workers will have their wages suppressed which will prevent them from reinvesting into a college education.
Unless the college professors become so comfortable that they can afford to just give away college educations.
I don't like utopianism and I'm certainly not going to plan on a best case scenario. But I can't help a tiny fraction of my brain that says "There are ways in which it could turn out well." Probably not, but the existence of a best case scenario feels like it should mean something.