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Originally Posted by Krases
The question is this though: will there be enough jobs in science and medicine to compensate for a loss of manual labor jobs?
Huge amounts of money would need to be spent educating people because they can't just skip school and do manual work. I am talking about society at large, not specifically the construction industry. Society would need to re-organize.
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Yes you are right, education would become a booming industry because knowledge will be the primary goal of most adults.
My thoughts are this: What if energy becomes very, very cheap. Like there are major advances in solar power and everyone with a house can put panels on their roof and power their households for free. Now also imagine if machines/robots become powerful and cheap enough where they can build a big house for every family, manufacturing the materials on site using some kind of nanotechnology, all for a fraction of the cost of a modern day house. Also imagine advances in horticulture that allow families to grow their own food with high densities of nutrients & protein.
All of a sudden, living becomes very cheap and a large portion of the populace doesn't have to work 10 hours a day just trying to pay the mortgage, utility bills and feed the family. At that point most everyone would be free to spend their days learning and educating themselves and huge advances in medicine & science would take place.