Will humans actually need jobs in two decades? A bold prediction just dropped: AI and robotics could make traditional work obsolete in under 20 years. We're talking full automation here—no clocking in, no grinding through emails, none of that.
The timeline's aggressive. Twenty years isn't some distant sci-fi future; it's within our lifetime. Some people graduating college today might never hold a conventional job. Wild.
But here's the thing nobody's asking: what happens to the economy when labor becomes optional? Universal basic income funded by AI productivity? Tokenized contribution systems? The crypto space might actually have answers traditional finance doesn't.
Robotics are scaling fast—factories, logistics, even creative work. Pair that with AGI developments, and you've got a recipe for massive disruption. Whether that's utopia or chaos depends entirely on how we restructure society now.
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GasGuru
· 2h ago
NGL, these 20 years are way too optimistic... I still think things will get stuck at political and class divisions.
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down_only_larry
· 9h ago
NGL, these 20 years are way too optimistic. Jobs won't disappear that quickly; the real problem is the skyrocketing wealth gap...
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MetaMisery
· 9h ago
Nah, this prediction is way too optimistic. Fully automated in 20 years? I think it'll take another 50 years.
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AirdropBlackHole
· 9h ago
20 years? Ha, I think you need to add another 0. Even now, AI-generated code is still only a half-finished product.
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LiquidatedTwice
· 9h ago
20 years? That's too optimistic; reality won't move that fast. However, the combination of UBI and crypto is definitely worth considering. Traditional finance should have gone bankrupt long ago.
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GasFeeNightmare
· 9h ago
Jobs disappearing in 20 years? Wake up, you still have to pay your mortgage.
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BrokenDAO
· 9h ago
Jobs disappearing in 20 years? Sounds good, but the question is who gets to decide how UBI is distributed... Decentralized governance will just replay the same game of voting power weighting, and in the end, the big players will still call the shots.
Will humans actually need jobs in two decades? A bold prediction just dropped: AI and robotics could make traditional work obsolete in under 20 years. We're talking full automation here—no clocking in, no grinding through emails, none of that.
The timeline's aggressive. Twenty years isn't some distant sci-fi future; it's within our lifetime. Some people graduating college today might never hold a conventional job. Wild.
But here's the thing nobody's asking: what happens to the economy when labor becomes optional? Universal basic income funded by AI productivity? Tokenized contribution systems? The crypto space might actually have answers traditional finance doesn't.
Robotics are scaling fast—factories, logistics, even creative work. Pair that with AGI developments, and you've got a recipe for massive disruption. Whether that's utopia or chaos depends entirely on how we restructure society now.