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I think it's time for this issue to move to the front of our minds. So much technological innovation has turned computers into workers that compete for low lev
by droopyEyelids 13y ago
I think it's time for this issue to move to the front of our minds.
So much technological innovation has turned computers into workers that compete for low level jobs. Huge swaths of the economy no longer support human life, and with every advance the future looks worse for taxi drivers, farm workers, etc.
I believe it's time to start thinking how we can create jobs with technology. Creating new industries that will use computers to enable human beings to do jobs they couldn't before. Groupon did an OK job of that, creating positions for 10k people, doing a form of sales no one had conceptualized before.
But I think in time we can do much better than sales jobs. Groupon was still developed to send investors further into the stratosphere, it just uses people in a way that makes them hard to dispose of, and needed in quantity. While that seriously rules, I believe the idealistic goal of growing an organization that treats employees as 1st class citizens, rather than clueless investor carrying mules is fully possible.