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"Tech" is not going to provide jobs for people who previously did manual or clerical work. It's intrinsically geared towards automating away those classes of la
by theoh 7y ago
"Tech" is not going to provide jobs for people who previously did manual or clerical work. It's intrinsically geared towards automating away those classes of labour, without any guaranteed provision of a one-for-one replacement of 'old' jobs with tech jobs. I would be surprised if the level of technical skills of the population increases over the next few years. There's really no reason to expect that it should.
- FartyMcFarter 7y agoYeah, it's pretty ridiculous to expect a one-to-one replacement. Let's imagine a large bank that closes down 1000 branches with 10 employees each, due to online banking becoming more prevalent. Does this mean that the bank suddenly (or ever) needs 10,000 extra developers working on their online banking? Not even close!