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So the idea is that a massive increase in productivity will reduce economic production? Or is the idea that we will continue to organize our society around the
by maxerickson 3y ago
So the idea is that a massive increase in productivity will reduce economic production?
Or is the idea that we will continue to organize our society around the ever more pointless concentration of wealth?
- doktrin 3y agoAre you asking me what I personally believe, or what the GP meant? I don't want to put words in their mouth, but stating that bartending is future-proof while white collar work isn't paints the picture of a future with more inequality and concentration of wealth rather than less. Maybe I'm being overly broad in my interpretation, because they did specifically single out "coding" - but having personally worked both in and out of tech I don't really see non-dev "desk jobs" as having any particular moat against automation (and potentially even less than devs, which admittedly means I disagree with the likes of Jensen Huang). So, when programmers go - they won't go alone. At that point it's reasonable to ask what kind of human labor will be marketable enough to command upward-mobility salary tiers, or if the 99.9% are perpetually relegated to pouring Bezos & co drinks while teaching them how to telemark [1] [1] dystopia aside it would be entertaining to watch
- maxerickson 3y agoI was making a snide remark about bizarre belief that the macroeconomic effect of increased automation will be poverty.