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The article ends with an idea like, "workers band together and fight Amazon". I'm all for workers getting a better deal and more humane conditions while these j
by ilaksh 5y ago
The article ends with an idea like, "workers band together and fight Amazon". I'm all for workers getting a better deal and more humane conditions while these jobs last, but they won't.
Th most common jobs in these places are being intensely researched by roboticists. As soon as it's feasible and economical to replace the people with robots they will. For some of the jobs, that could come in a matter of months, or only a few years. It will continue.
I am going to tie this into something more controversial. Basic income. And I think even more controversial is that we may need to change how money fundamentally works in order to make basic income work.
- aww_dang 5y ago"Is Guaranteed Basic Income the Solution to Robots Taking Our Jobs?" https://mises.org/wire/guaranteed-basic-income-solution-robots-taking-our-jobs https://mises.org/wire/guaranteed-basic-income-solution-robo... >The UBI advocates are correct that some jobs are replaced when capital goods do the work that was done by labor. Robots are a capital good. If the same amount of output can be produced by a mix of more robots and fewer people, an industry will not offer as much employment as before. Does it follow that when one industry uses fewer workers there is no need for their services anywhere else? How would the advocates of this view explain the enormous growth in the labor force since the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago—a period characterized by increasing capital intensity?
- 8note 5y agoThere was another set of labourers before the industrial revolution - animals. They don't have much work nowadays since their jobs in all industries were replaced with automation.