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> There will always be jobs. Yes, but there will be fewer jobs. That's a problem. The industrial revolution removed a large number of jobs (basic manufacturin
by johnday 7y ago
> There will always be jobs.
Yes, but there will be fewer jobs. That's a problem.
The industrial revolution removed a large number of jobs (basic manufacturing skills) and created a load more (advanced manufacturing skills / logistics / etc.).
There is no expectation or even hope of a new class of jobs coming out of the high-power automation that we are liable to see in the next couple of decades.
- muzz 7y agoFewer jobs in that area. Jobs will be created elsewhere because human wants are endless.
- chillacy 7y agoLast wave of automation took out millions of manufacturing workers. Instead of retraining to become software engineers they largely went on disability and then as a cohort started dying of drug overdoses and suicides at higher than normal rates. Most of the new jobs created in the past 10 years are temporary / gig jobs without benefits, nothing like the manufacturing jobs lost. So, great opportunities for some, but many will suffer.
- burntoutfire 7y agoJust as a side note, but I wouldn't in any way idealize the manufacturing jobs that were lost. A lot of them were so horrible that the new hires quit in the first day (often just not coming back from a break). I'd probably prefer to be an Uber driver than to work in a car factory.