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> It's becoming clear that increased automation as well as the rise of artificial intelligence is threatening ever more jobs. This sentence is absolute FUD. E
by pdq 11y ago
> It's becoming clear that increased automation as well as the rise of artificial intelligence is threatening ever more jobs.
This sentence is absolute FUD. Every technical revolution over the past 300 years has been made with automation and productivity, and yet people are still employed in new jobs in sectors that did not exist before. Employing people to do menial obsolete jobs serves no purpose other than to delay the next evolution of ideas and products.
With this thinking we would still be handwriting books and riding horses. In the future when driverless cars are prominent, people will ask in astonishment "So you used to DRIVE your own car to work?"
- pcurve 11y agoI think the economist is concerned about both pace and kind of disruption taking place. I tend to agree with you all jobs lost due automation have been replaced with other types of jobs. Usually bullshit service sector jobs to cite a common example. Mind you we already have some forms of universal basic income. Social security... child credit... all conditional but nevertheless are tax transfer