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> But a lot of people will go hungry. Will they? Honest question. How much of the labor share is human versus automation in 2020?
by eropple 7y ago
> But a lot of people will go hungry.
Will they? Honest question. How much of the labor share is human versus automation in 2020?
- Nasrudith 7y agoThe hunger itself is less of an issue because the food itself is pretty damn cheap. With resturants the labor is the biggest cost component. Especially if it is just "rice and dried beans boiled in water plus multivitamins". Hell the supply chain issues show distribution is an expensive part in comparison - although unfortunately the cheapness comes from high scale too. The real issues with scalability are things like medical care and other higher skilled labor - not just because of task switching inefficiencies but because any proportional hour reduction means increased demand - assuming that the hours worked are useful. Less skilled labor is more or less commoditized and would be easier to spread the burden around and would likely show a boost instead of a decline in productivity (although involving say 10 people working 4 hour shifts instead of 5 working 8 hour shifts). Regardless of stance on what we should do a massive societal lifestyle shift would neither be easy nor well received.
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