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You still have to show that the same amount of opportunities for people are created as are lost by removing low-value jobs. I cannot see the brunt of the people
by pmr_ 15y ago
You still have to show that the same amount of opportunities for people are created as are lost by removing low-value jobs. I cannot see the brunt of the people that find themselves out off a job now transitioning into the high-tech sector.
I agree with you on the basic principles. Most of those job losses do not hurt the greater picture, aside from the harm inflicted on the individual. But I think there should be planning for a world where most individuals don't have means or opportunity to make an income. I see nothing of that yet and if you still can publish an article in a McKinsey journal on something that is so blatantly obvious, I doubt the world is prepared.
- Ryan_Shmotkin 15y agoNo, you don't. If the amount of wealth increased (or even stayed the same) with less man-power required. We as 'humans' have lost nothing. (But rather gained some free time to pursue other interests). Only possible problem is that this might lead to higher inequality, which is a whole different problem that needs solving already (look at afrika)
- v0cab 15y agoOr to put the problem of inequality another way: Some people have lots of money and thereby the ability to manipulate lawmakers and media to control me. I no longer have the ability to make any money. I do not have the ability to make those people give me their money. I am screwed.
- nickik 15y agoReform your democracy when lobbying is such a big problem. The more power in one place the more worth you get on lobbying. Change to a more democratic system and maybe smaller countries.
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoBut we're not talking about the democracy problem. We're talking about the capitalism problem.
- nickik 15y agoNo you talk about Corporatism. One of the way to fight that is to give it less points of power to hook into. - Federalism - Direct Democracy - Small Staate - Strong Constitution - Strong Mechanism to insure new laws dont violate constitution - Transparency
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoNo you talk about Corporatism. Very, very wrong. Turning corporatism into "true" capitalism (no TRUE capitalism puts sugar in its porridge, by the way) would not halt the march of computationally-driven productivity advances and subsequent disemployment.
- marshallp 15y agoBecause of the big data revolution the situation is actually worse than everyone simply becoming programmers. Those who have more capital can collect/buy more data and a winner takes all situation is developing (you can already see this with google and facebook). In the next few years programmers and engineer will start becoming jobless. Some kind of redistribution wealth definitely needs to occur. This needs to occur worldwide with international cooperation.