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> or automate 99% of the business and free these poor souls from a mundane existence. I agree on one hand, but there's a lot of hand waving and hopeful/wishful
by jlarocco 5y ago
> or automate 99% of the business and free these poor souls from a mundane existence.
I agree on one hand, but there's a lot of hand waving and hopeful/wishful thinking built into that answer.
It's very easy to say, "Do something else," but if it were that easy, it wouldn't be an issue in the first place. And if 20 million food service workers all get CS degrees, guess which will be the next industry with plummeting wages and few job opportunities?
We have more people on earth than ever before, but we also have more automation and less need for those people than ever before. It seems like at some point society is going to have some hard questions to answer about employment, pay, etc.
- chii 5y ago> guess which will be the next industry with plummeting wages and few job opportunities? 'cept with 20 million CS degrees, the software industry would boom - more code, more customized, bespoke software for every firm, presumably increasing productivity and output and thus, increases wealth. Not to mention these people may also "stumble" upon something great by being entrepreneurial. So it'd be strictly better to have 20 million CS degrees holders, vs 20 million hospitality workers.