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>Hence, it's hard to charge a high price for labor that people are willingly oversupplying. Not strictly true. Thanks to digital camera availability there are
by loewenskind 16y ago
>Hence, it's hard to charge a high price for labor that people are willingly oversupplying.
Not strictly true. Thanks to digital camera availability there are a near infinite amount of people willing to do your family portrait but I suspect you'll have no issue with paying to have it done.
>Contrast with waiting tables, where people do not enjoy doing it enough to do it for free. If there were a lot of people who loved it so much that they were willing to wait tables for free in their spare time, wages would probably go down there too...
That sounds like an incredibly awful world to live in where people can only get paid for things that no one likes doing and everything fun has to be given away. I mean, I don't mind doing what I love to do for free so long as I don't have to pay for food, rent, etc.
- bad_user 16y agoOh great, so the future of authors and their revenue lies now in the jobs that haven't been automated yet? There used to be a time when taking an ID photo would require you to go to a specialized photo studio, you know. Waiting tables might still have a future though, since those robots from Japan are kind of creepy (for now at least).
- loewenskind 16y agoWhat are you talking about? I'm not saying to keep jobs around that make no sense to be done (e.g. having a guy stand at each of a construction site holding a sign to direct traffic). I'm saying that things that still have to be done shouldn't all become free if they are tasks that people like to do. Don't people always say to find something you love to do and then find a way to get paid to do it? I don't want a world where there is no way to get paid to do it unless nothing costs anything.