Whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) will ever live up to its fictional expectations is irrelevant, because automation, often confused with AI, keeps moving forward, displacing human beings from the tediousness of repetitive tasks. In addition, vacations, health care, and bathroom breaks aren’t required, while productivity, efficiency and precision are unmatched for a variety of applications.

Many have seen Spot, “a nimble robot that climbs stairs and traverses rough terrain with unprecedented ease, yet is small enough to use indoors,” as described by Boston Dynamics. Handle, another one of the company’s robots, is shown in the video below working tirelessly in a warehouse, complaint free.

The robotics field has plenty of competition, as the next chart illustrates, and as technological advancements emerge, others will join the automation fray that will disrupt economic inputs and outputs of all types. Just don’t confuse automation with intelligence.

It’s wonderful that boxes are moved and stacked by Handle, one will say, but who will pick my tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers, a task that requires the finesse of a human hand? This is the argument to justify legal and illegal migration ad nauseam and advocates insist that we need more unskilled people to feed a growing population because agricultural jobs are repudiated by city folk. They also clearly imply that apart from menial jobs, migrants add nothing of value to society. But as an example, Pik Rite already has the simpler non-robot required to eliminate the back-breaking, delicate tomato picking activity, among other crops, that considerably reduces the size of human resources on the farm.

Now imagine a world where farming is completely automated, and robotics control the production and distribution cycles, from sowing to harvest, packaging to last mile delivery, with minimal human intervention. Then envision cities where supermarkets are precisely stocked overnight by diligent, job-focused robots that track inventory on the fly, and payment is collected by machines wearing a smiley, while cashiers have gone the way of the horse and buggy. And that’s not AI; that’s automation, the product of human intelligence, not intelligence onto itself.

To provide a glimpse of the future, “Walmart expands robots to 650 additional stores,” and that was in 2020.

Walmart is expanding its use of robotics and artificial intelligence for “repeatable and predictable” tasks including scanning shelves for out of stock items, according to a company statement sent to Retail Dive. The retailer currently has robots in 350 stores across the United States.

As we find ourselves in the midst of exponential world population growth — over 8 billion by now — the common wisdom is that with automation we will be able to feed larger herds of happy humans. But that position is countered by the opposing and realistic view that a larger and mostly unskilled population is unnecessary. Labor at the lower tiers of the Human Intellectual Stratification (HIS) will not have a purpose, defying the harsh truth that everything within the ecosystem has a function. But it’s not a call for genocide, but rather the fact that Darwinism will take over and Western Civilization must not be burdened by millions upon millions of individuals that will diminish everyone’s standard of living through the welfare state.

Those that complaint about “Climate Change, CO2 and You” also advocate for open borders, and constantly remind everyone that they have a humanitarian duty to save billions of people from misery. But what if all humans on Earth attained a consumption level on par with the lowest tier of America’s or Europe’s designer jean-wearing, phone hugging, coffee sippers? It would destroy the planet much faster, according to the Climate Change Cult, a group that contradicts itself at every turn.

To bring perspective to the resource utilization issue, not to mention pollution, let’s quickly visit the much-hated oil patch, per Rystad Energy, a Norwegian consultancy, while assuming that oil is not abiotic.

On a global basis, Rystad estimates that the world has about 2,092 billion barrels of reserves, or about 70 years’ worth of oil at today’s production rate of 30 billion barrels per year. That compares to the 1,300 billion barrels produced around the world in history.

We’ve consumed 38% of all oil on Earth over the last 100 years, while fewer than 20% of the world’s population drives the much-despised automobile. In addition, oceans are replete with plastics, courtesy of Asia and Africa, as explained in “Ocean Pollution Viewed Through A Clear Plastic Straw.” It’s complicated because the well-being of Western Civilization depends on all these resources.

Meanwhile, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is being pushed by people that fail to realize that income and consumption of resources without production defies the purpose of their existence. If UBI recipients perform valuable community tasks, then there’s a value delivered for the income received, which will eventually compete with robotics. All tigers and lions must hunt and kill to remain relevant in the food chain, or else.

Automation and technological advancements will not support larger populations but shall reduce them while doing away with the multitudes of academics, politicians and bureaucrats because they also inhabit the lower tier of HIS. People tend to view the ecosystem as helplessly passive, but it makes adjustments with unemotional precision that are often missed or misunderstood, and they’re taking place as we speak, with the birth rate of the developed world dropping, among other more immediate counter measures.

That’s why today’s invader from the 3rd World is now called “asylum seeker” although they can’t pinpoint the wars and persecution that they are fleeing from and travel through safe countries in pursuit of welfare supplied by the usually suspects that built Western Civilization. Here’s the last question:

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