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That's only true as long as... automation actually takes human jobs for real instead of simply "displacing" jobs. Looking at history, you as yourself where is

by soufron 10y ago

That's only true as long as... automation actually takes human jobs for real instead of simply "displacing" jobs. Looking at history, you as yourself where is the evidence for automation destroying human jobs... ... but Elon Musk is not a historian. He's a business man trying to increase the value of his automation and robotics ventures. It does not need to be true. It's just PR bullshit.

addicted 10y ago
Malthusian theory was completely right about human history until just about the time it was written. History is not always a predictor of the future because of technological changes. Many believe that we are upon such a technological change (and for good reason. Companies creating billions of dollars of value are generating a fraction of the jobs they once did. The jobs that are being generated tend to be part time instead of full time like they once used to be. Big data obviates a lot of thinking jobs as well. More precise automation makes a lot of skilled jobs easier to automate. There's just an order of magnitude between technology today that is easily replicable and intelligent in a way it never was, from the technologies of the past).