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You could argue that automation is one of those improvements with no disadvantage. But it can also result in people losing their jobs and those people might be
by olalonde 6y ago
You could argue that automation is one of those improvements with no disadvantage. But it can also result in people losing their jobs and those people might be opposed to it.
I would argue that the same is true with the gig economy. It benefits the people participating in it greatly but it also cost some people their jobs (e.g. taxi drivers).
- rorykoehler 6y agoLosing a job isn’t inherently bad. I’d only bad now because we’ve decided to arrange society around zero sum thinking.
- doctor_eval 6y agoIt’s pretty inherently bad if losing your job means you can’t feed your kids or yourself.
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- rorykoehler 6y agoExactly. It’s absurd the consequences of losing your job are so fundamental. It’s time civilisation moved forward from this.
- doctor_eval 6y agoI think we probably agree 100% about this, but the reality today is what’s important to people losing their job today. I don’t think you mean to downplay the impact of someone losing their job today, but that’s how it came across to me.
- rorykoehler 6y agoIf there was ever a time we had a direct opportunity to change this dynamic it's today.
- doctor_eval 6y agoI really hope you’re right, but I don’t see it. I really want to be wrong though. It would be amazing.
- Misdicorl 6y agoOne of the most embattled changes of the last 20 years is not likely to make the list of `improvements with no disadvantage`...