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> We have millennia-old assumptions about peoples' relationships with work (that there will always be useful work for people to do, making it fair and reasonabl
by maratd 15y ago
> We have millennia-old assumptions about peoples' relationships with work (that there will always be useful work for people to do, making it fair and reasonable to structure a society where everyone who can work must) that are about to become invalid
This makes no sense. Work can be categorized as either creative or non-creative. Computers, software, robots, etc. are destroying the demand for non-creative human work. Great! Every person who loses a non-creative job, ends up finding a creative one! Machines are incapable of doing anything genuinely creative and in my humble professional opinion, will never be able to.
That leaves all the creative work for us. And the fun part? The creative work market is only limited by our imagination and our imagination is truly infinite.
- adrianN 15y agoI disagree with your assumption that machines will never be creative, but regardless, how large do you think the market for creativity is? Throughout history artists have been poor because nearly nobody wants to pay for art. You could reasonably say that we're currently living during highly creative times, everybody has his dog has his own youtube channel and blogs, yet virtually noone can feed a family from that. Why do you think that this situation should change in the near future?
- maratd 15y ago> Throughout history artists have been poor because nearly nobody wants to pay for art. Since when do artists have a monopoly on creativity? My work is extremely creative. I write software. And I make plenty of $$$ to boot. If you create anything, then you're being creative. Get it?
- queensnake 15y agoAnd among the unemployed /now/, do you see this happening?