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>but new jobs will be replacing them. Automation will result in a net jobs loss. Or else it wouldn't be worth doing. >If meaniful work does go away what does
by fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
>but new jobs will be replacing them.
Automation will result in a net jobs loss. Or else it wouldn't be worth doing.
>If meaniful work does go away what does that mean? Everybody has everything they can imagine?
What do you mean? Soon, after we don't have to worry about who'll make the toilet paper, meaningful work may commence.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoThe whole issue is the difference between the human definition of "meaningful" and the economic definition. The former can easily create work in a downright post-scarcity situation: a new Act of Creation, a new playground or painting or programming language, will always be meaningful as long as one person other than its creator invests meaning in it. It's the economic definition that decrees "Work is meaningful if it generates Economic Value equivalent to the costs of housing, food, health insurance, and profit margins for the providers of each."
- philwelch 14y agoAutomation makes human labor more efficient. Efficiency of a resource doesn't reduce its consumption; it increases it. That's the Jevons paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox And yes, it does apply to labor. That's why the cotton gin made slavery worse, not better.