China sets up first unmanned factory; all processes are operated by robots

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=AntonioR;48415690]And no, if a society of 50 people needs 25 people to do the work, it's not logical anymore that society of 100 needs 50 people to work, that's the point of the whole discussion, the number will decrease, we are heading to an automated future.[/quote]

Except there is no evidence to suggest this. Unemployment rates vary widely depending on where you are, but they do not seem to be tied to actual population.

[quote]We are not completely there yet, but we are getting there. And when we get there you can throw away all the old academia studies down the toilet, because it wont apply anymore. Also your graphs will be updated.[/quote]

Well you need to provide some kind of evidence for this. As far as we can see, technological unemployment doesn't exist.

[quote]That was completely put out of context, not to mention you are completely ignoring past historical events he references, current situations in other countries your books don't talk about, you are putting words in his mouth and not elaborating any of your arguments.[/QUOTE]

Except he literally said that one of the reasons unemployment is reduced is when people get killed:

[quote]In fact the only time things have improved after massive unemployment has been the economy rapidly expanding or because most of the poor people were killed off. Both things usually happened at the same time in the form of two global wars, the period after both wars was a great time economically.[/quote]

This is terrible, it's not even wrong.

[AntonioR]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;48415703]Well you need to provide some kind of evidence for this. As far as we can see, technological unemployment doesn't exist.[/QUOTE]

Can't really provide much evidence if I'm talking about the future, we'll just have to wait 20-30 years and see. I think after 2008 many things changed. Btw, it doesn't count if there's a big natural disaster or some other form of hard reset.