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It’s better than having no job isn’t it?

• CamperBob2 4y ago
  No. The only way to a post-scarcity economy is by continuing to harness technology whenever and wherever possible. There has been, and will be, no point in time at which the optimal strategy is "Stop" or "Wait" or "What about my job?"
  • dragonwriter 4y ago
    > The only way to a post-scarcity economy There is no way to a post-scarcity economy, the phrase is a contradiction, and scarcity is an inescapable consequence of human desire.
    • visarga 4y ago
      There's no scarcity of information and media.
      • dragonwriter 4y ago
        > There's no scarcity of information and media. There is scarcity of information and media of the kind people find valuable. If there is a sense in which the broader statement is true, it is irrelevant for that reason.
      • jonplackett 4y ago
        There’s no scarcity of bullshit articles. There’s a massive scarcity of quality information and media. But that’s unavoidable really because it’s based on perception - There will always be a top 10% of something and a bottom 90%.
• sekai 4y ago
  The same things were said during the industrial revolution, or the internet revolution. Guess what happened? Labor market adapted.
  • jonplackett 4y ago
    Physical machines still needed many people to physically make them and run them. This isn’t the same with thinking. Just look at how startups can have millions of customers and 20 employees. Also last time we had mental labour to fall back on. This time we don’t. It’s different this time. Also most western countries which have given up on manufacturing are going to be worse hit because their jobs are more easily replaced.
    • CamperBob2 4y ago
      This isn’t the same with thinking. We don't know that. We know that the exact same objections have been raised before, and have always, without a single exception, proven to be invalid in the long run.