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Who knows. Unskilled workers make me sad.
by selter01 13y ago
Who knows. Unskilled workers make me sad.
- mpyne 13y agoIt gets worse. What if skilled workers are skill in a field that becomes suddenly redundant? Think about payroll clerks who typed out checks every two weeks; now it's all done by computers, databases and spreadsheets. Even skilled workers are not necessarily immune. Of course that merely shows that there is a problem, it doesn't show what to blame or how to fix it in general.
- saraid216 13y agoRemember how we used to have telephone switchboard operators?
- mpyne 13y agoEven better, remember when people used to talk on "party lines" with no privacy at all?
- briancaw2 13y agoThe problem is that all of the technology we've created as a society (sharing science, funding from the government, allowing resource harvesting from public land) is being used to make workers obsolete, but instead of honoring the communal investment in technology by making a strong safety net where people can live, further training/education, and thrive, making our economy even stronger, we allow the corporations and uber-rich to dodge taxes (and hoard the hundreds of billions of dollars that could support that safety net).
- baddox 13y agoOr wagon manufacturers when automobiles took over. Or manual farm workers when plows and then tractors took over.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoWhat happens when Silicon-Valley-tech of the week skilled workers become redundant and they're suddently "unskilled"? That makes me sad.
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- PeterisP 13y agoIf some "tech-of-last-week-skilled" workers can't become "tech-of-next-week-skilled" workers in that proverbial week, then they already are unskilled workers and should be treated as such.
- mhurron 13y agoWhy? Most jobs in the world require no special skill not picked up on the job. In all seriousness, the world needs ditch diggers too.
- saraid216 13y agohttp://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_18946.jpg http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/i...
- mhurron 13y agoI suppose you could call that skilled, but I would have put that under the on the job training I had mentioned.
- woodchuck64 13y agoAs Eliezer says, if personal maids, cooks, and servants suddenly become affordable, only then might we have an unskilled labourer problem (http://lesswrong.com/lw/hh4/the_robots_ai_and_unemployment_antifaq/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/hh4/the_robots_ai_and_unemployment_a...)