What are the 5 softest genrations in USA history?
Gen Z
Millenials
Gen X
Boomers
Silent Generation
Greatest Generation
Yes, loves, the Greatest Generation were considered soft slackers by their elders. What they all have in common is living in Modern Times and more specifically electrification.
Dolly Parton grew up in a cabin with no electricity, and when they finally got it, she said it was "like going from the Stone Age to the Space Age".
Listen to Dolly Parton.
Along the great acceleration of the modern age, we have cursed ourselves with each new blessing. Petroleum powered the Monkey Singularity, but also soiled our global nest. Plastics, modern miracle, choking the machinery of life. You get the idea. But we do love our great acceleration and insist on more science and technology. Problem, the carrying capacity of this S-curve is brains. Not enough brains to throw at stuff, and you plateau or decline. Need more brains.
Problem. Not enough brains.
Solution (age old solution) automate. And so it has happened.
Problem. Robot brains even in humanoid bodies cant' handle it.
Solution: Throw more money at it until it breaks. And so it has happened.
Keep in mind, even the electricity powered robots are powered by us food eating robots.
Consider this chart:
Gross per acre is best looked at as capitalist owner farmer's earnings/cost. The net is after the farmer sells it, but you notice a big chunk out of the net is labor. The hated labor. Capitalist owner farmer gets more from the labor intensive crops like vegtables in favor of feed or meat, which uses a lot less labor. But often he or she leaves that money on the table, becuase of labor. In fact, a lot of the tractors are robots, and the farmer is more manager than worker himself, in charge of a menagerie of robot slaves harvesting a vast monolculture.
Robot slaves don't pick tomatoes very well.
As a result, the United States of Armerica has a slavery problem. We like slaves. We want slaves. But we increasingly cannot have slaves.
I could be totally wrong (I doubt it) but it could be AGI robot slaves to the rescue.
If so, that gives us until the escosystem humans depend on collapses, as early 2032, no later than 2054.