Originally Posted by
RexBanner
A serious question guys and this applies to every industry not just aviation. Once we've finished putting everyone out of a job through automation, who exactly is going to be travelling anyway? How will we even have an economy with such a tiny workforce? Perhaps a more pertinent issue here as it applies to everybody.
Watch some documentaries from the 30s/40s/50s, and marvel at how we have more people working today, even though most of the jobs you'll see them doing in those documentaries are gone. Some of the Royal Mail documentaries, for example, are simply staggering when you see how many people used to be required to do things that are mostly automated today.
When we see human-level AI at a low cost, yeah, we're doomed. Until then, people will always find useful things to do that others will pay for.