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Hopefully automation will reduce the need for humans to do the boring, repetitive jobs and increase the number of people working in jobs they find rewarding and
by avz 9y ago
Hopefully automation will reduce the need for humans to do the boring, repetitive jobs and increase the number of people working in jobs they find rewarding and interesting. I doubt we could eliminate the former completely and have everyone doing the latter, but it seems that automation may improve the ratio significantly.
- JetSpiegel 9y agoI bet people said the same thing when Watt perfected the steam engine. I'm not buying it, workload will simply increase to compensate productivity improvements.
- rhaps0dy 9y agoAh, but if people said the same thing, people were right. The number of repetitive jobs (being a peasant, moving your hand up and down a loom) has indeed decreased.
- coldtea 9y agoBeing a peasant (in the sense of someone working in the land, not as the subject to some feudal lord) was much more free and far less repetitive than being a factory worker (or an office drone for that matter). People also don't understand how many free hours those people had (because a lot of farm work is seasonal).
- brianwawok 9y agoFarmer in the winter sounds like an OK job as long as you had enough food stored away.
- coldtea 9y agoDepends on the place. The mediterranean winter (which I am aware of) in places like Spain, France, Italy, Greece, etc, was not that much of a deal.