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This is incredibly short sighted. The rate at which we've been developing tools has been increasing, and has also required more specialization. You cannot swit
by thinkingkong 3y ago
This is incredibly short sighted.
The rate at which we've been developing tools has been increasing, and has also required more specialization. You cannot switch jobs easily from being a software engineer to a heavy equipment operator but they both use sufficiently advanced tools. Looking at top level employment metrics is also hiding quite a bit of information. Time is required for people to learn new skills. If a sudden influx of people were all heavy equipment operators then the market will price that in and suddenly that job is the same as mopping a fast food bathroom.
- pulvinar 3y agoNope, it's history. Go back and look at any new technology. Each one put large numbers of people out of work, but they quickly found new jobs in areas that were opening up due to other new technology: telephone operators became television assemblers and so on. Same will happen here.
- addcommitpush 3y agoThere are two obvious limits: - this may be true in the long run, this does not mean people will magically adapt in one day. Luddites were skilled workers whose jobs were replaced by much less skilled jobs because of mechanisation. - People work much, much less than in the past: working hours for those who work were almost cut in half in 150 years [0], and there are relatively way less people who work (much longer studies, much longer retirement than a century ago) - if you count time spent on domestic work. [0] https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours