The point of labor is to turn raw materials and energy into useful things and perforn services. When robots do this, those who own raw materials and energy will have increasing power.
I would invest in farm land, mines, water and solar panels. In the future we will have automated mining and prospecting robots that are tied to automated foundries that are tied to 3d printing and other forms of automated manufacturing. Within a small area you could have a fully vertically integrated brick factory or metal chair factory.
In the Soviet Union they once built a iron smelting factory out in the middle of nowhere near a big iron containing mountain. The engineers said they should build it near a population center, like in the west. It was very inefficient in the end because once the deposit ran out they had to ship the iron and people in to work there. In the future, the factory will be containerized and move itself around to where it's most convenient and that doesn't have to mean near a population center, because it will be fully automated.
Farmland and mines (or the minerals in them) seem to be limited world-wide and maybe good investments (though we may improve artificial ways to produce food that are less dependent on land).
Water is a regional thing (for some places it's less of a problem). Not really sure how one effectively "invests" in water.
Solar is entirely different. I think solar has a great future, but as an investment, I'm not so sure. It seems highly likely that we will needs lots more power in the future and it does seem that much of it would come from solar. Current solar technologies are still relatively young, inefficient and (relative to future technologies) expensive. Investing in solar at this point would be like investing in an car manufacturer in the early 1900s.
I would invest in farm land, mines, water and solar panels. In the future we will have automated mining and prospecting robots that are tied to automated foundries that are tied to 3d printing and other forms of automated manufacturing. Within a small area you could have a fully vertically integrated brick factory or metal chair factory.
In the Soviet Union they once built a iron smelting factory out in the middle of nowhere near a big iron containing mountain. The engineers said they should build it near a population center, like in the west. It was very inefficient in the end because once the deposit ran out they had to ship the iron and people in to work there. In the future, the factory will be containerized and move itself around to where it's most convenient and that doesn't have to mean near a population center, because it will be fully automated.
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