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the problem is having too many people and too few interesting and creative jobs. Everything will become writing in the end; there won't be enough people to pay
by Noos 5y ago
the problem is having too many people and too few interesting and creative jobs. Everything will become writing in the end; there won't be enough people to pay people to be creative, and increasingly winner takes all will be the norm. At best you hope there is a UBI where people will just be on welfare for the rest of their lives until birth rates stagnate enough to where population matches the opportunities.
But there simply aren't enough interesting, paying jobs being created, and increasingly we have too many people for boring jobs.
- marcus_holmes 5y agoBut that's not what actually happened when the banks automated. If what you are saying is true, then there should be a fairly large set of educated but unemployed people. There isn't. Unemployment rates are about the same now as they were then. Which is astonishing because we've also added women to the workforce since then. It looks like if there are too many people, more jobs get created. Presumably this is why average salaries have stagnated since 1970 - there are more jobs because employees are cheaper.
- makz 5y agoI disagree, there are thousands of rabbit holes to explore, including some that are interesting only to the individual exploring them. Wish I had enough free time.