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it's always seemed to me that a likely endgame of automation is government bureaucracy continuing to make more and more busywork jobs in order to keep people do
by mojoe 8y ago
it's always seemed to me that a likely endgame of automation is government bureaucracy continuing to make more and more busywork jobs in order to keep people doing something for their income. I think it's a more likely outcome (although distasteful to me, personally) than universal basic income, given historical political trends.
This is all assuming we'll reach a level of automation where the majority of humans don't actually have to work to produce goods.
- nerdwaller 8y agoI don’t know how to say this lightly, but it seems to me that many of the “administration” type jobs have become this. Admin jobs seem to have proliferated most industries I can think of that otherwise may not need quite so many (medical, legal, financial, increasingly technical with some of the “Agile frameworks”). Most the of those are likely unnecessary, but they’re there to supposedly abstract away some BS.
- joeblow9999 8y agoA lot of govt jobs are already this. Glorified welfare/sine cure, whatever you want to call it.