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There will continue to be less and less security for workers who perform tasks where training and performance are well systematized and unique judgement and ski
by ryanmarsh 8y ago
There will continue to be less and less security for workers who perform tasks where training and performance are well systematized and unique judgement and skill (think classical professionals) is not a value added.
This is the nature of a healthy and functioning economic system. The question is, how do humans provide for themselves a semblance of predictability and sustainability to their work and income?
These problems have been solved before. We simply need to expand our thinking a little. Collective bargaining, wage & hour laws, and various systems of education have all worked. The problem evolves as the economy evolves. One thing we should also consider fixing are laws that drive companies to want to outsource certain types of work.
I'm sure we will figure this out. What concerns me instead, is the full 10%+ of the population who have such a low IQ that the economy has no use for them. I don't mean this as a normative statement. This is a point of fact. 10% of the adult population has an IQ so low that there are no jobs you can effectively train them for. As automation increases the need for the next 10% will diminish, and so on. This is a problem we have no proven solution for.