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>Those examples sound pretty tractable for statistics You're missing my point: things that don't seem like jobs, no matter what they are, will be legitimate ga
by daenz 7y ago
>Those examples sound pretty tractable for statistics
You're missing my point: things that don't seem like jobs, no matter what they are, will be legitimate gainful jobs, as long as people want them done and they can't be automated or are too much effort to automate. Unless you are making the argument that in the near/medium future, nothing falls into that category. If that's the case, then we just disagree. I think the problem lies more with connecting people to those new jobs than them actually existing.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThere's a lot of things people want done that can't be jobs. For instance, myself and quite a lot of other people want the surplus CO₂ out of the atmosphere. Yet this isn't a job, and probably won't be for a while, because we can't make money off it. I can't afford just paying for it, not the amounts required. I'd have to make money off it or off something else. Outside of charity, no job exists without it making more money for the employer than it costs to pay for that job. I'm making the argument that the pool of things that people want done and can monetize is much smaller, and I'm not convinced it'll grow fast enough to cover for automation-induced job loss.