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"If all jobs require four years of expertise to apply for, every time one job gets mechanized, while employers switch over to automation, the employees made red
by apsec112 10y ago
"If all jobs require four years of expertise to apply for, every time one job gets mechanized, while employers switch over to automation, the employees made redundant would need to sustain themselves while studying to gain the expertise required for a job in a different field at the same salary."
That is completely true, but it's also something that applies to every other means of labor automation (going back to the 18th century or earlier), so it's nothing we haven't seen before.
- makomk 10y agoNot really. Up until I think at least the 1970s, on-the-job training and apprenticeships were a lot more common. Both the expectation that employees will already have the required skills and expertise and across-the-board requirements for university qualifications are relatively new changes.
- setr 10y agoIsn't that just another example of the author's point? Automation hasn't changed, the world around it has
- SilasX 10y agoJobs today don't realistically require 4 years of post high school education, even if employers say they do. They're just using it as a filter. If you can find a way to get workers to send a true signal of qualification without blowing four years of their lives, and can pocket even a sliver of the savings, then you will be very very rich.
- carry_bit 10y agoVery very rich, assuming that method is legal and socially acceptable.