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> How many jobs can be done at home? Infinite. That's because the set of possible vocations is only bounded by human imagination. This results in an uncountab
by CiPHPerCoder 7y ago
> How many jobs can be done at home?
Infinite.
That's because the set of possible vocations is only bounded by human imagination. This results in an uncountable set, which would resolve to a value that approaches infinity.
A more insightful question is, "How many of the jobs that people hold today can be done at home?" 34% seems like a reasonable metric.
- eeZah7Ux 7y agoDespite the downvotes you make a good point. The paper does not address the underlying assumption: jobs are fixed in number and type and we can only change the location. In reality, job markets are extremely elastic. Case in point: millions of jobs in the world exist only because a human worker is slightly cheaper than a machine at a given task.