3 ms·
Taking this a step further we see the growth in completely meaningless jobs. For example, low power administrative jobs, that are impossible to automate.
by frozenport 9y ago
Taking this a step further we see the growth in completely meaningless jobs. For example, low power administrative jobs, that are impossible to automate.
- JPLeRouzic 9y ago10 years ago I already thought that 1/3 jobs were already meaningless. So much people are in "piloting/supervising" jobs that has little added value. Jobs, themselves are more and more "activities". In addition people are fighting back, they use low technology or pretend that something that is already automatized does not work: Every time I rent a car on the Web, when I go picking it at the local agency, they ask me every details that they record again and again on their computer. When I did work, every manager asked us to use both the Intranet and a spreadsheet on the local file server to record our activity. Once the HR director who should have know how many people were on the payroll, went at every team with his computer, to record how many people there were in each team, how many time they did work per week, etc...
- frozenport 9y agoAnd you're probably right. But the thing is that some jobs weren't meaningless, for example, before automated agriculture people had to actually grow their own food. Assembly lines needed people to do the jobs that machines couldn't. But today we increasingly moved to meaningless jobs and there is little room to automate them. Kinda like Amdahl's law.
- prostoalex 9y ago"Unknown item in the bagging area."