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> Just as farmers & bowling-pin-setters found new jobs in the past, taxi-drivers will find new jobs in the future. this seems like something of a religious vie
by abiox 9y ago
> Just as farmers & bowling-pin-setters found new jobs in the past, taxi-drivers will find new jobs in the future.
this seems like something of a religious view, and seems to downplay the nature and scope of technological advancement.
mechanization obviated a lot of physical labor. this made human expansion into mental labor and services more practical. however technology is fast approaching a point where substantial amounts of mental labor and services will be subject to automation.
most 'new jobs' won't necessarily go to humans, as they'll be ripe for automation from the start.
- valuearb 9y agoif post civil war legislators were told their ultimate effects on farm employment, they would have banned any mechanical farming technologies. Would that have made the world better, or worse?
- johngalt 9y agoMechanization has always obviated mental labor as well. Turning the same screw on an assembly line 100 times as day is vastly less mental labor than building a car as an artisan. Advances in technology and business processes are often made specifically to allow for less brain labor. There are tens of thousands of people in retail banking who can't calculate an amortization table without a computer. This has only resulted in more jobs in banking not fewer. Certainly automation may replace some jobs entirely, but in most cases it's merely an increase in efficiency.
- cgmg 9y agoWhat on earth does it have to do with religion?
- abiox 9y ago'religious view' was an epistemic reference.