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If our mathematicians are 10% better, we’re not going to have train drivers at all.
by 9991 3y ago
If our mathematicians are 10% better, we’re not going to have train drivers at all.
- tchaffee 3y agoTrain drivers will then move on to do more important work. You're always going to need other people if you want to progress at the fastest rate possible. Humans are social animals and all the great things we achieve are as a unit. An independent ant will never be able to compete with a colony.
- throw9away6 3y agoThey won’t though because there are only so many spots in higher educated fields. So you have the problem of baristas with phds and train drivers with advanced math degrees
- tchaffee 3y agoHumans have never run out of work. By your reasoning trains themselves should have caused mass unemployment. With better tools we just do bigger stuff. This has been true for all of human history.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agothat's a problem of subsidized liberal education, not a problem of lack of education-based jobs