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> doesn't make it less sad for people's who livelihoods depend on those positions I totally agree. Id say, however, that we should be making it so those people
by beardedetim 7y ago
> doesn't make it less sad for people's who livelihoods depend on those positions
I totally agree. Id say, however, that we should be making it so those people, and we all, are okay without a job/with our jobs being automated away, not be Luddites about it.
- pharke 7y agoThe unfortunate thing is that people have been predicting that increased automation should lead to lower working hours and higher pay since 1930 when John Maynard Keynes predicted that we'd all be working 15 hour weeks. It's nice to just assume that we'll all benefit from more automation and more efficient processes but unless we all act to ensure that it is so it is not likely to happen.
- heavyset_go 7y agoThe Luddites were Luddites precisely because they weren't okay without a job, they went hungry and homeless.