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This feels kind of like saying “future generations won’t have access to horses, slaves, whale oil, or pocket watches”. Jobs as we know them today are going to

• EliRivers 7y ago
  This feels kind of like saying “future generations won’t have access to horses, slaves, whale oil, or pocket watches”. Oh right. Any ideas on what the improved replacements for all these things[0] are going to be? [0] Minimum wage, unemployment insurance, worker’s compensation for injuries, employer-provided social security, overtime, family and medical leave, disability insurance, the right to form unions and collectively bargain.
  • trevyn 7y ago
    Human needs are quite easy to satisfy with shelter, food, some basic medicine, and a certain mindset. The costs of all these are asymptotically approaching zero with technology. Why would you want a job or any employment protections if they offer absolutely nothing of value to you?
    • hackeraccount 7y ago
      "certain mindset" would seem to mean the elimination of human desire.
• marak830 7y ago
  Well that's surely a nice theory. The jobs part not the hyperbole. Me I prefer to have insurance, protection if I get injured at work and the whole host of other things myself and my parents fought for. It's easy to stand up and say you want things differently, until you get older and have a family. Then you realise those pipe dreams of an easy life doing what job appeals to you at the moment are the vapid dreams of the young and lazy.
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