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The issue now is that the cost of getting the training to find a new job is going to be substantially higher than it has been during previous iterations of auto
by jrs95 9y ago
The issue now is that the cost of getting the training to find a new job is going to be substantially higher than it has been during previous iterations of automation. The market is already falling short here -- there's a lot of people doing stuff that falls way short of their potential. If we're going to make it through the next few decades without substantial increases in the welfare state, that's a problem we need to solve before it gets to be too late and the political scales have tipped past the point of no return.
- m52go 9y agoYeah, if you're talking about underemployment, that's a huge issue, but I think that's more market-driven than skills-driven. People are generally over-qualified than under-qualified. Too many people are taking on obscene levels of debt to get a college degree, but most aren't really distinguishing themselves by doing that...they're joining a crowd of other people who've proven they have the same skills (on paper). Do we need more of that? Hence the need to be entrepreneurial. Everyone doesn't have to create the next Instagram, but if they can just acquire a skill to offer their communities some kind of a service, like the world worked before limited liability and the 401(k), they should be alright. Many (most?) of these skills don't require $200k to acquire. What is different in today's situation is that we're asking people to do more than they did in their past: learning a new skill and offering it to others is damn hard. Leaving a farm to work in a factory where someone tells you what to do all day is easy (not literally, but it doesn't require your livelihood to depend on your creativity/luck).
- valuearb 9y agoit's easier and cheaper to train programmers than ever before.