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Have you seen "good vs services employment" graphs, like this one? [0] Number of people producing goods has been shrinking for a longest time, its under 20% no
by theamk 2y ago
Have you seen "good vs services employment" graphs, like this one? [0]
Number of people producing goods has been shrinking for a longest time, its under 20% now. It'll likely keep shrinking as automation becomes more advanced, and in the future "service" would be much more important.
When I was a kid, I've read some sci-fi stories about societies like those, where most people were working in service industry.
[0] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2023/09/07/employment-in-goods-and-services-industries-since-1939 https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2023/09/0...
- hammock 2y agoThat graph is US only
- vivekd 2y agoGood point - the graph being US only means it misses offshoring manufacturing jobs to places like China. We can't assume that the loss of manufacturing jobs was solely caused by automation
- eru 2y agoWhy call it 'loss', if it was outsourced? UnAmericans are also human.
- trealira 2y agoWhy do you think the word "loss" implies they think non-Americans aren't human?
- justinclift 2y agoPretty sure the point was that the jobs are just being moved around, not "lost".
- eru 2y agoI was specifically interested in the contrast to automation alluded to in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970901 A job can be truly 'lost' if it's replaced by a machine. But it's merely reshuffled, if a foreigner does it.
- TOMDM 2y agoWhere else would you apply this reasoning? If I lose my phone it doesn't stop being a phone...
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