Intelligent automation will reduce demand for human workers dramatically over the next decade. The problem is manifold.
1) A lot less people will have the necessary income to support themselves and their families.
2) Demand for goods and services will shrink as available dollars for non-essential items also shrinks, further reducing the job market.
3) The government will need to shift it's priorities to compensate for a different kind of population; one even more seriously divided between the haves and the have nots.
4) Elections will be seen as a serious obstacle to maintaining government in the hands of those who are seen as worthy to lead.
5) The government will need to be more authoritarian to protect itself and those whom it deems as worthy citizens from those who have little value, and might look to violence to recoup what they are expected to lose.
This does appear to be driving the long range planning by the republicans. They see the need to drastically reduce the number of people in the country who they perceive as not being able to contribute to this changing employment picture.
They are redesigning the government to phase out any program that supports certain types of people. Elimination of retired people who they see as a burden (useless eaters) along with people with serious illnesses and/or disabilities is part of how they plan to do this.
They also don't see the need for an educated workforce, since a lot of the jobs that will still be there will be semi-skilled. Also, they will want to tailor higher education to only be available to the select few.
So, we're looking forward to republican culture wars on a grand scale...if they get their way.
This is what project 2025 is really about; the redesigning of the United States into a authoritarian state that puts the "right" people on top of the heap, while insuring that the rest of the people are in survival mode, and aren't able to do anything about it.
AI is an integral part of this, since it automates the complete, total, utter control of the masses.
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