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It’s wild the dichotomy between libertarian and trad conservative in the Republican Party. You’ve got both the people who want to automate all the jobs away, a
by techpineapple 1y ago
It’s wild the dichotomy between libertarian and trad conservative in the Republican Party. You’ve got both the people who want to automate all the jobs away, and Tucker Carlson saying if FSD eliminates 2 million trucking jobs than we shouldn’t do it.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y ago'Dark Money' [0] describes how this ideological situation came to be. pretty interesting stuff. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)
- ETH_start 1y agoLibertarians don't believe that automation leads to fewer jobs being available. They look at the past 200 years of automation and see that as more tasks are automated, labor productivity simply increases.
- apwell23 1y agothey simply don't care about jobs numbers. chips fall where they may
- techpineapple 1y agoI think this has changed. Historically yes, you’re right, but I think modern thinkers either think productivity will accelerate so we can have UBI(Sam Altman), or in some cases, have a very utilitarian perspective that if we need less people, we need less people(Peter Thiel)
- ETH_start 1y agoEconomists are still unanimous on the fact that automation does not reduce employment.