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I've never understood this argument. Is it "we should keep inefficiencies in the system, because some people make money off of those inefficiencies"?
by shaftway 11y ago
I've never understood this argument. Is it "we should keep inefficiencies in the system, because some people make money off of those inefficiencies"?
- dllthomas 11y agoI understand the argument. Your rephrasing overlooks that our society demands that most people make money to live a decent life, and it's a lot of people making a not-crazy amount of money off the inefficiencies, and it's not obvious what industries could be expected to provide a comparable living to that many people. That said, I don't think making everyone pay more to ship things so that some people can do something that isn't valuable any longer is the way to go.
- YeGoblynQueenne 11y agoThe argument is that automating peoples' jobs will make them unemployed. Clearly, unemployment is not efficient. If you have 40% of the population sitting around twiddling their thumbs, then you're not being very efficient at all, even if the jobs those people used to do are automated.