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> It's remarkable - and a bit frightening - how little human labor is required A huge number of jobs are engaged in verification/audit/fraud detection/related
by _jal 6y ago
> It's remarkable - and a bit frightening - how little human labor is required
A huge number of jobs are engaged in verification/audit/fraud detection/related activities. "Paper pushers", the cliche goes.
An OK book that looks at this (and goes farther than I do, I think making some eventually unsupported claims) is _Bullshit Jobs_ by David Graeber. Worth a read - some of it is quite good.
Audit functions will always be needed. That said, I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of job functions that looked "normal" pre-C19, that people will decide no longer need doing, or will be done substantially differently after.
- danans 6y ago> A huge number of jobs are engaged in verification/audit/fraud detection/related activities. "Paper pushers", the cliche goes. Agreed, and a lot of the rote work of auditing and fraud detection has been automated. But at some point, this devolves into the problem staying ahead of human adversaries, and that is hard to fully automate. Also, sometimes the slowness and inconsistency of human labor in these situations is itself a barrier to fraud.
- _jal 6y agoOf course, humanity didn't get C19 and suddenly become honest. I'm thinking of it more as a reset - there are a lot of job functions where things are done the way they are because that's how we do things. After pauses like this, people look at those with fresh eyes.