A Workerless World?

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Computers caused this important shift, "In the years ahead," Rifkin wrote, "more sophisticated technologies are going to bring civilization ever closer to a near-work
erless world. . . .
Today, all ...  sectors of the economy ... are experiencing technological displacement, forcing millions onto unemployment roles." Coping with this displacement, he wrote, was "likely the single most pressing social issue of the coming century."

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--- Nobe Prize winner Wassily Leontief, who stated in 1983 that "the role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors."

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In his 2009 book "The Lights in the Tunnel", software executive Martin Ford agreed, stating that "at some point in the future---it might be many years or decades form now--- machines will be able to do the jobs of a large percentage of the "average" people in our population, and these people will not be able to find new jobs." end quote from Chapter 1.

This appears to be the world we are  entering right now where people with a High School diploma or less might not find any job at all ever because of new information technology developments alongside robotic developments worldwide.

So, how the world deals with this will tell us whether there will be a new system or revolutions in all developed countries. This is one of the many things our world faces in this century. And how each country deals with this will decide whether this will be a bloody revolution or a bloodless revolution country by country the rest of this century.