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Jobs are more often created than discovered. Tomorrow we might discover a new kind of math, requiring newly trained mathmeticians in a novel field. Those math
by vorpalhex 4y ago
Jobs are more often created than discovered.
Tomorrow we might discover a new kind of math, requiring newly trained mathmeticians in a novel field.
Those mathmeticians will need admins, business services, places to work, food, etc.
Thus even the discovery of a few jobs has more jobs created than found.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoThe mathematicians don't need any more food than they did before the new kind of math was discovered. Why would you count that as job creation?
- carlmr 4y agoThe single mathematician no, but a new field would lead to the creation of a new building with new people at some point.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoEvery one of the people in that building needs the same amount of food they did before they moved in.
- jhundal 4y agoSame amount of food yes. But if a mathematician was just sitting on the sidelines before this new field, they may decide it is more productive to trade time they spent on preparing food for more time to spend on math.
- lupire 4y agoThat's just moving the food job somewhere else. It's not clear that this thread is about. Jobs a weak approximation of utility creation + equalit of the distribution of that utility.
- vorpalhex 4y agoHaving food is not the hard part, the logistics of food is the hard part. Feeding one person is easy. Feeding 200 people with a mix of allergies is hard.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoOn the other hand, when you're already feeding 4000 people, feeding 4200 people is not noticeably harder.