Can Robots Fix Inflation, Supply Chain and Labor Issues? Singapore Thinks So

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2. Instead of working in factories where molded plastic or metal items are made

they'll be working in recycling plants where worn out printed items are turned back into material that can be handled by the printers. The work will be less satisfying since people genuinely want to produce something beautiful and/or immediately useful.

Most of us will still be cogs in a machine, it will just be a different type of machine. Owners and rulers will try to eliminate even the recycling, mining, and refinery jobs, but that just means other jobs will pop up to service those robots, too.

So good luck to Singapore.

I'm all for automation replacing the kind of donkey work that wrecks people's bodies and kills them off in their 50s. I just know it has limits. We don't actually need robots, but they need us.