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> technological advancement and automation should enable greater freedom for individuals to spend their time how they choose I work in ML. Antiwork seems like
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
> technological advancement and automation should enable greater freedom for individuals to spend their time how they choose
I work in ML. Antiwork seems like it takes its understanding of automation’s present capabilities from fiction, imagining that we could automate people’s basic needs today. We can’t. It’s as simple as that. People are working hard (the irony) on advancing the tech, but we can’t do that today.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoI was going to say the same thing. Let's say your toilet breaks, who's going to come over and fix it? You're not going to automate a plumber in the next 50 years...
- nybble41 5y agoYou're not going to automate a plumber, but we can design plumbing systems which are less likely to have issues and/or are easier to repair for non-specialists, and thus reduce the demand for plumbers. You'll still need some for the exceptional cases, of course. Not that I disagree with the core point: There are jobs which are both necessary and very unlikely to be automated any time soon.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt's more about class. The 1% are absorbing almost all the new wealth created and the rest of us get breadcrumbs and they -own- most of the government with occasional concessions lest the rabble rise up and overthrow them like in almost all civilizations where the powers that be eventually went to far. No one thinks we have robots that can replace all physical labor, low wage jobs. I think the 99% occupy wallstreet was headed in the right direction and that the powers that be have been using the media to polarize us all with poltical, racial, and political differences and keep us concentrating on our differences rather than our common enemy and the most valuable prize, self determination.