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Why not 4% with robots handling the rest?
by wolco 7y ago
Why not 4% with robots handling the rest?
- mindslight 7y agoI was saying what the numbers would change to at the same level of technological progression, but with policy changing to make the work more evenly distributed. Obviously the long-term goal is ever-more automation. But current economic policy is based around creating full full-time employment, which is fundamentally at-odds with ever-less needing to be done due to automation. Hence the proliferation of anti-productive "bullshit jobs" where people ultimately aren't ultimately helping to produce anything (eg the entire medical billing system), but still need to cling on and go through the motions so they can eat.