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Particularly when those young men feel disempowered, usually through unemployment or under-employment. Consequently, their well-being and the well-being of soci
by joshklein 9y ago
Particularly when those young men feel disempowered, usually through unemployment or under-employment. Consequently, their well-being and the well-being of society in general are no longer neatly aligned, and their rational self-interest does not allow them to support the status quo.
It’s worth noting that “driver” is the most common job for white American males, and the United States can’t be too many years from full automation of vehicles. If the benefits accruing to the broader society from this automation are not redistributed in such a way to alleviate the strain placed on the workers displaced from their roles, I fear it will be the moment this pot boils over.
- fjsolwmv 9y agoThat "most common job" was debunked. It's an artifact of where you draw arbitrary taxonomy lines.
- joshklein 9y agoI’d assume even those with a generous definition are too conservative by far. We rapidly approach a future where no human will operate any heavy machine that accomplishes a discrete task. That task might be to transport goods or people across the country, to lift a steel beam into place, or to assemble ingredients into finished products. Once the cost curve flips over to the other side, the whole thing accelerates. Even worse if the harmed group is a smaller concentrated minority; they have no legitimate recourse through democratic expression.