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There is not, tautologically, a desire for labor. I do not desire human computation services at all (remember when "computer" was a job description) or the manu
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
There is not, tautologically, a desire for labor. I do not desire human computation services at all (remember when "computer" was a job description) or the manual transportation of written information.
You could charge me $0 for these services and I still won't buy any. These are actual jobs that have vanished and there is no scarcity of these services.
- mac01021 10y agoYou can pretty much automate away specific jobs, like the two you've just mentioned. But there is an infinity of other jobs. And we won't have automated them all away until we arrive at an (impossible?) state of affairs in which there are unlimited, cost-free robots whose physical and intellectual capabilities are on par with humans. Pick whatever futuristic, heavily-automated world you want to live in: It will still be worth something to you to have someone (for example) spend hours on the web researching a question that you want an answer to (but not badly enough to spend hours yourself).