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Trouble is, there's a bunch of people out there who have no aptitude for those things, and have neither the desire nor the means to acquire that aptitude, and/o
by twoquestions 9y ago
Trouble is, there's a bunch of people out there who have no aptitude for those things, and have neither the desire nor the means to acquire that aptitude, and/or don't have the means to sell this aptitude for enough money for bare necessities.
What do they do?
This isn't a rhetorical question, I don't know the answer, and I'm kept up at night for the coming storm.
- achamayou 9y agoInvest in education rather than robots ;)
- philipkglass 9y agoEven if every barista could learn to write software or practice law, it would just mean that software developers and lawyers would come to be paid like baristas. An individual can rise by educating-up to a kind of job that offers high pay. A whole generation of graduates can't. (Literacy used to be a specialized skill that provided its wielders with better-than-average jobs. Not so much today.)
- alien_at_work 9y agoFurther, what if by the time the barista learns a new trade that trade has been eliminated?
- CM30 9y ago> it would just mean that software developers and lawyers would come to be paid like baristas. In quite a few places, the former are basically paid like baristas and office clerks. That certainly seems to be the case at the web development end (and I guess more mainstream side in general) in a lot of places in Europe.