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...or the notion of what a job is changes. Unless machines can literally provide everything that humans can want (including art, interaction, companionship, et
by daenz 10y ago
...or the notion of what a job is changes. Unless machines can literally provide everything that humans can want (including art, interaction, companionship, etc), then there will always be something for humans to do to make money.
- tiglionabbit 10y agoLike in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. You can make anything in the matter compiler for free, so long as you've bought the intellectual property rights for the design.
- intended 10y agoWhich are all relatively poorly paying. Art is a log scale when it comes to compensation - and many of the best paid are dead. The issue is not job loss, its job replacement with worse paying service sector jobs which act as a barrier to upward social movement (because lower pay means less access to various positive network effects)
- stevetrewick 10y ago>Which are all relatively poorly paying Relative to stuff we place higher utility on than art, because opportunity cost. But as the price of that stuff approaches zero due to mass automation of production so does the opportunity cost of art.