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The entire "job" concept was born with the industrial revolution, relatively recently. Miraculously it survived through post-industrial age, mostly through pape
by atemerev 11y ago
The entire "job" concept was born with the industrial revolution, relatively recently. Miraculously it survived through post-industrial age, mostly through paper-shuffling clerical jobs (nobody could have predicted it a century ago). Now, either the notion of a job will be gone altogether (see pre-industrial history on how it will look like), or some other activity will take the role of paper shuffling as the archetypal job (instructors? servants? We can only guess now).
- sologoub 11y agoThat's very much an oversimplification - in pre-industrial society the majority of labor was involved in food production. At the current scale of farming, I don't see this happening. The article is very poorly written, but I think the concern it is trying to hit on is what happens to the economy when too many jobs are automated out of existence and the overall employment plunges. Personally, I'm optimistic that the society will adapt, as we have adapted to the industrial revolution, but we need a healthy debate to do so.