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Who started this Robots are Stealing our Jobs narrative? I feel like it's not a coincidence that in the past few years everyone has been talking about it, despi
by lacampbell 10y ago
Who started this Robots are Stealing our Jobs narrative? I feel like it's not a coincidence that in the past few years everyone has been talking about it, despite automation increasing apace for the past century or so.
Who's behind it, and who benefits? UBI proponents?
- Namrog84 10y agoBecause it's while it has been happening and even accelerating for the last century(and longer), it is only now hitting a threshold/momentum in the past few years. We are now standing at a precipice of a substantial amount of people being automated with unlikelihood of them going somewhere else. Although predictions are unreliable, there is strong evidence that there isn't just going to be "more jobs somewhere else", like has happened in the past when things were automated or optimized (e.g. farming) UBI discussions and increasing proponents are an outcome of this, not the other way around.