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Only fragile jobs are lost during technological upheavals (See Taleb, Anti-fragility).
by chaetodon 13y ago
Only fragile jobs are lost during technological upheavals (See Taleb, Anti-fragility).
- EliRivers 13y agoEvery job is fragile given the right technological advance.
- harryh 13y agoIn 1900 something like 40% of the American workforce worked on farms. Today it's around 2%. Farming is a fragile profession? It's been around for thousands of years!
- lhnz 13y agoI'd bet that the only 'job' Taleb would say was antifragile would be something like entrepreneurship.
- JamesArgo 13y agoI don't know about that. My model of Taleb has him pointing out the many dangers of entrepreneurship, and the myriad biases which lead people to underestimate the risks of starting a business--survivorship bias et all.
- lhnz 13y agoActually, I'm kind of wrong -- but kind of right. Pg. 80 says "You are the source of our anti-fragility" in regards to entrepreneurs. Basically it's lots of small fragililities which tend to create anti-fragility - hundreds of entrepreneurs trying to create businesses and failing over and over again, causes economic growth. If you are able to live cheaply, and learn a lot doing something risky, you are being anti-fragile.
- twic 13y agoHe'd probably have to agree that writing smart-arse books about economics is a durable career.
- der3k 13y agoThink for yourself.
- platz 13y agoNo!
- JamesArgo 13y agoI find it ironic that "anti-fragile" or robust institutions can only be classified as such post black swan.
- arkitaip 13y agoOh great, yet another buzzword that people will throw around instead of actually discussing things.
- lhnz 13y agoThat's not a buzz word. It's a word with an explicit definition.
- cynwoody 13y agoThanks for turning me on to Taleb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ehXxoUH1AlM http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e... Having watched the first few minutes of the above, I think he means his "antifragility" to be an attribute of economic and political systems, not of individual jobs or even whole occupations. E.g., he says that, in order for the restaurant business to be at least robust and maybe even antifragile, individual restaurants must be allowed to be fragile. It gets more interesting when he turns to the banking business ...