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Libertarians 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 aut
by ETH_start 1y ago
Libertarians 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.