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Oh your cheerleading here is going to age like milk when unemployment numbers start ramping up in white collar sectors. For the record, when construction and in
by forgetfreeman 2y ago
Oh your cheerleading here is going to age like milk when unemployment numbers start ramping up in white collar sectors. For the record, when construction and industrial jobs got deleted the chorus line was "retrain for service industry work". When service industry and white collar jobs really start getting the same treatment, what's the move now? We're literally running out of economic sectors to pretend folks can be funneled into.
- coliveira 2y agoAll of this would be fine if the wealth were shared by the population. The big problem is that wealth is concentrated and only a small group will benefit from these technology shifts.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoIt's weird how our species has had evergreen problems around resource allocation for at least the last few thousand years.
- CamperBob2 2y agoOh your cheerleading here is going to age like milk when unemployment numbers start ramping up in white collar sectors. You don't seem to understand that this is the goal. A very worthy one. We won't get to a post-scarcity economy by doing the same things -- and the same jobs -- that got us this far.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoYou what now? You think AI is the path to luxury space communism? I'm missing the part where the 0.1% that owns and controls basically everything shrug and lean into redistribution of wealth...
- throwanem 2y agoThey'll tell us to retrain for construction and heavy industry.