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No one's talking about infinite problems except you. Unemployment is a prety bloody obvious problem that might occur if automation increases. We also have his
by blub 8y ago
No one's talking about infinite problems except you.
Unemployment is a prety bloody obvious problem that might occur if automation increases.
We also have historical data of jobs that have disappeared with various levels of success in retraining. This time there's legitimate and serious doubts that the employees affected by automation will be able to retrain at all, because several low-skill type of jobs that were retraining possibilities are also targeted by automation.
- nradov 8y agoUnemployment has been around as long as there has been employment. It's not at all obvious that structural unemployment will increase in the future. You could make an equally plausible argument that it will decline. At this point we're all just guessing.
- robotresearcher 8y agoAutomation is at the highest level in history. Unemployment is at record lows in modern peacetime history (with exceptions like Southern Europe which are not hotbeds of automation). If automation inevitably destroys jobs, how can these facts be reconciled?