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They won't necessarily look for pipe bending jobs either, they'll try to get any job they can get. So entirely unrelated and non-automated fields can become dev
by mljoe 9y ago
They won't necessarily look for pipe bending jobs either, they'll try to get any job they can get. So entirely unrelated and non-automated fields can become devalued due to the increased supply of labor.
- vlehto 9y ago...as if pipe bending was not already "any job they can get". If we assume that the most mundane jobs get automated first (as has happened so far) the effect of automation should again be rising wages for those who get to keep their jobs.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> If we assume that the most mundane jobs get automated first (as has happened so far) the effect of automation should again be rising wages for those who get to keep their jobs. That seems intuitively correct, but can potentially be counteracted if (some significant share of) the jobs that aren't completely automated away are automated enough to reduce entry qualifications, such that (combined with displaced workers from fully automated jobs) there is an increased supply, relative to demand, of qualified labor, driving wages down. Jobs that are neither automated away nor simplifies by automation such that the qualified labor supply is expanded should see higher wages, but that may be a very small share of pre-automation jobs, and may not even be the majority of post-automation jobs.