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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Since they can't all be automated, they'll need actual people on this island who make robots, do programming, run networks through buildings, swap out servers, pave roads, and yes - grow food. If it's not a food growing climate they'll need someone to build hothouses. That means they'll need accommodations for truckers - which means a hotel.
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What is missing on the island is that everything is outsourced as the cost to import to construct is prohibitive. Also programmers are global, manufacturing is global, only 1 service person is needed for the restaurant robotics. . .
The point is that if the world progresses to complete automation, there will be a monopoly of robots against which the humans will have to compete, and since the humans need a lot more services than bots, humans lose out to capital.
If humans lose out to capital, there will be a very large percentage of socialistic governmental supported unemployed. . . with very few productive humans supporting just the corporate owners. . . and that's when revolutions happen. . and the world goes backwards. .