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There is limited demand for the jobs you list. If population continues to grow and automation continues to grow, I believe there will soon be more people than w
by dkersten 10y ago
There is limited demand for the jobs you list. If population continues to grow and automation continues to grow, I believe there will soon be more people than we need for domestic labor, mechanical turk, selling things on the roadside, fashion and entertainment, maintaining the automations, lawyers etc. Anyway, robots can sell cigarettes much cheaper than a person can.
I don't think that inventing bullshit jobs (say an extra few layers in your local bureaucracy) is really a solution.
I'd much rather everyone got a universal basic income and could focus their lives on something more useful like their families, or creativity and art or whatever the post-job-world will be about.
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- dkersten 10y agoNote also the submission about how routine jobs are disappearing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310423
- yummyfajitas 10y agoI take it that since you believe there is no useful work to be done, you also oppose expanding the government and providing new services? Working women don't need child care, and should in fact be encouraged to stay home to reduce the demand for jobs? Infrastructure is not crumbling and in need of repair? That's what "no useful work" means.
- dkersten 10y agoI didn't say that there was no useful work to be done. I said that I believe there to be a limit to how much there is and that I believe that, if automation continues to grow, that population will exceed how the amount of useful work. There will always be useful work to be done, but will there be enough for 7 billion people? What about 10 billion people? Especially as more routine work gets automated "away".