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My view is that 99% of jobs are either unnecessary or replacable. Heck, even when we talk about Newton's discoveries , other people on similar stuff at the tim

by petra 7y ago

My view is that 99% of jobs are either unnecessary or replacable. Heck, even when we talk about Newton's discoveries , other people on similar stuff at the time and would have gotten there. And if it's 99%, why not let the family choose which parent stays with the kid ? Combine that with paying really well to trully important jobs. You'll get reasonably good results with that.

com2kid 7y ago
> My view is that 99% of jobs are either unnecessary or replacable. I think this is a very upper middle class white collar view. Over 2.1% of Americans work as cooks (!!)[1] and another 3.6% work as grounds cleaning. Just keeping buildings somewhat functional is a lot of work. Then you have all the people working on sales floors, not everyone wants to buy from Amazon! 3.5% in construction. 7.8% spread across all maintenance occupations just keeping everything glued together. Another 5.9% in production (manufacturing), even with the incredible amount of automation that has taken place there. So we're well above 10%, and that is just taking a look at hard to automate categories that have more than 1% of people in them! https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/emp-by-detailed-occupation.htm https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/emp-by-detailed-occupation.ht...
- petra 7y ago
  Some of those jobs are important(1), but most replacable - many people can do that job. And I'm not saying thry don't carry done value , just that raising your kids well, in my view, is much more important. (1)are all cooks and restaurant that necessary ?
  - com2kid 7y ago
    > (1)are all cooks and restaurant that necessary ? The idea seems pretty ubiquitous, as soon as a society gets any amount of wealth you'll find people being paid to cook food at scale. And cooking is one of those things that scales up very well, it doesn't have to mean fancy sit down restaurants. There are still a few places I can grab food for cheaper than what I'd be able to prepare it myself at that quality level, though sadly those types of venues have seemingly been on a decline for decades.
    - petra 7y ago
      With modern preservation methods, factory made food can reach very high quality. Google the french chain picard, or micvac. Maybe not for fried food, and salads(easy to make). but for most other types of food it can work.

by petra 7y ago

com2kid 7y ago

> My view is that 99% of jobs are either unnecessary or replacable. I think this is a very upper middle class white collar view. Over 2.1% of Americans work as cooks (!!)[1] and another 3.6% work as grounds cleaning. Just keeping buildings somewhat functional is a lot of work. Then you have all the people working on sales floors, not everyone wants to buy from Amazon! 3.5% in construction. 7.8% spread across all maintenance occupations just keeping everything glued together. Another 5.9% in production (manufacturing), even with the incredible amount of automation that has taken place there. So we're well above 10%, and that is just taking a look at hard to automate categories that have more than 1% of people in them! https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/emp-by-detailed-occupation.htm https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/emp-by-detailed-occupation.ht...

petra 7y ago
Some of those jobs are important(1), but most replacable - many people can do that job. And I'm not saying thry don't carry done value , just that raising your kids well, in my view, is much more important. (1)are all cooks and restaurant that necessary ?
- com2kid 7y ago
  > (1)are all cooks and restaurant that necessary ? The idea seems pretty ubiquitous, as soon as a society gets any amount of wealth you'll find people being paid to cook food at scale. And cooking is one of those things that scales up very well, it doesn't have to mean fancy sit down restaurants. There are still a few places I can grab food for cheaper than what I'd be able to prepare it myself at that quality level, though sadly those types of venues have seemingly been on a decline for decades.
  - petra 7y ago
    With modern preservation methods, factory made food can reach very high quality. Google the french chain picard, or micvac. Maybe not for fried food, and salads(easy to make). but for most other types of food it can work.