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Past technological breakthroughs have required large, costly retools of society though. Increasingly, those retools have resulted in more and more people workin
by somesortofthing 3y ago
Past technological breakthroughs have required large, costly retools of society though. Increasingly, those retools have resulted in more and more people working in jobs whose societal value is dubious at best. Whether the next breakthrough(or the next five) finally requires a retool whose cost we can't afford is an open question.
- alchemist1e9 3y agoIs there a time period in the past you would have preferred to live instead and why?
- somesortofthing 3y agoNo, and I have no idea what I said that makes you think I do.
- alchemist1e9 3y ago> Increasingly, those retools have resulted in more and more people working in jobs whose societal value is dubious at best. This implies to me that in the past more people had worked in jobs with good societal values which would mean it was better for them I assume, and better for society. So I’m genuinely curious when that was and why. It sounds like a common romanticized past misconception to me.
- somesortofthing 3y agoAn increasing number of people being unproductive doesn't rule out an increase in total production. It does suggest that for those whose jobs are now obsolete, there is increasingly no alternative to subsidizing their entire existence. We've kept pace so far, but a majority of people being in a situation where their labor is worthless is a huge potential societal fault line.