At the risk of getting flamed yet further for bringing up difficult topics, here I go again. Go on, flame away. But if I can't post this stuff here, where else?
Most jobs susceptible to automation/elimination are service jobs. Most service workers are women. Women are more likely to work PT because of family duties and they have a partner to subsidize them. Still, they need the extra money or they wouldn't be working. Many women have, for whatever reason, little interest in technical jobs like engineering, IT, etc. This is not to say they can't do them so please, don't leap to conclusions. I am saying just what I wrote: most, even if able to do these jobs, just aren't interested in doing them. These professional-technical/tech jobs are populated roughly 80% by men. These are jobs not likely to be replaced by automated systems, as it is these ppl who support and execute automated systems. Ie, they do the work that puts ppl out of work.
When women need money, unlike heterosexual men, they can at least turn to prostitition, typically, provided there are men around to sell blow jobs/sex to. Postwar German women turned en masse to prostitution until the economy was re-built. Not surprisingly, their clients were mostly Allied soldiers. But most stopped turning tricks when the economy recovered a few yrs later, with some deciding to keep at it.
Frankly I think I see this happening now, albeit not to the scale of postwar Germany. I have been blown or had sex w/ more than one provider who when I've asked how she got started said it began with getting laid off and not being able to find a new job. Then after starting to turn tricks she found she liked it. Getting paid for sex was a kink to them and made them feel valuable, and despite their teaching from their mothers, found they liked experiencing multiple partners. (Surprise, women like variety as much as men and are not necessarily emotionally labile based on who they f*ck.) So they just continued.
Where I live, a lot of providers offer QS (bjs) for 60. They will also do FS for hh for 100, 160 for an hr. Prices have come down over the past couple years and I predict as more automation and layoffs happen, the prices will drop further. Another source of downward pressure is junkie hookers. There are a lot more these days than there used to be and they'll do anything for 20 bucks if they're hard up enough for a fix. It's a really terrible shame.
Personally I won't see a girl who I know is using smack. The addiction problem will only get worse before it gets better, too. So I think the number of women going into prostitution largely for circumstantial reasons will continue to go up. As the no. of vendors goes up, prices drop, if demand stays fixed. Simple economics. And as men lose their jobs also, the no. of buyers will drop. A guy can't see a hooker if he can't pay her. So prices go down further. Countries with legal prostitution/anti-pr. laws unenforced and rough economies predictably have pretty cheap hookers.
I for one do not at all like the idea of a woman going into prostitution because of a bad economy. If she goes into it bc she wants to bc she likes to f*ck lots of diff guys, fine. No problem. But the idea of someone's mother turning to blowing guys she just met (and hating it) just to feed her kids is not the least bit appealing. But really, what can be done? Economics is ruthless. At least all the homes and factories haven't been bombed like in postwar Germany.
So I finally come to the point of this post, now that I've established that hooking is becoming increasingly more common, probably bc of how the economy is evolving. (Another factor is women feeling freer to do and be what they want; for some women, they just plain like being hookers even if their orig. motivation was economic.) As bad as it is in terms of price pressure, it's about to get worse:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/323205...s-personality/
The technology is developing faster than even I thought it would. The profit potential here is in the many trillions of dollars. And for many guys, paying one price once, even if it's steep, to be able to bang someone (something) that looks like a very hot woman and is about 70-80% of the time passable as such is worth it. And prices will go down on these androids, probably pretty rapidly. We saw the same thing when cars were invented.
By 2030, I predict we'll see many sex partner female model androids available that are about 50% passable but function really well as sex partners. That is where the AI dev't will be focused bc hot sex is the purpose of the android.
Some may disagree with my prediction. And indeed, can a robot really feel you? Can you feel it? No. I would rather be celibate than restricted to banging androids the rest of my life.
But that is a man raised with real girls and women as sex and romantic partners. I can no more love an android woman than I can a water cooler. But what about boys raised with fully-functioning android women around? What happens when by the time he is 18 he has f*cked android women 1000s of times? Will he much care about connecting with an actual woman? And what kind of effect will this have on the girls around him, getting little or no attention from the boys? Will they be as happily entertainable by android sex partners themselves? My gut says no.
Today's hookers and future hookers are under more imminent economic pressure from the economy and work automation than competition from sex-bots. But check back in 2050 when android females are 90% passable and programmed to provide the most adaptive sexual experiences men can want. Do actual human women, women who have actual feelings and needs and who can love and be loved (and have it mean something to them), face a level of competition unparalleled in human history for the attention and support of men? Contrary to what certain feminists may want you to believe, the end of men is nowhere near but perhaps the end of women's historically significant sexual power over men may actually be a feasible future.
You might think that as a man I'd be glad for this possibility, but I am not. Humanity is alive and thriving simply bc men LOVE to f*ck women's brains out. Plenty of us are alive today bc men wanted to f*ck and women said, "Well, not in the mood, but all right dear." What happens when men by the truckload are no longer trying to get actual human women in bed but instead just walking up to androids, bending them down and f*cking them "Quest For Fire"-style?
The human race, arguably, could take a break from reproducing. We are overpopulating the planet. But going from 12 billion to 100 million ppl in 300-400 yrs is not inconceivable once sex android tech'y hits a certain price point and passability. A lot of human economics and advancement has hinged on the simple fact that men love f*cking women senseless. If we stop doing that to actual women and just take up banging androids instead, where will that take us?
Ideas?