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Great, let's eliminate the last remaining service sector jobs! What could go wrong?

• deelowe 13y ago
  Better to plug our ears, cover our eyes, and pretend that the technology doesn't exist, right? Automation is going to displace workers (and it should). This is certain and it's something we need to prepare for. The transition may be painful, but the end game is that humans are no longer required to work to survive. This is a "Good Thing."
  • w0utert 13y ago
    People are not just required to work because there's so much work to do, but because they need income, so they can consume, take on debt, service it, etc. No work means no income means no consumption means no economic growth means we won't be able to service our national debt or take on new loans. I'd go as far as saying a non-trivial proportion of service sector jobs is only necessary to keep deprecated business models going, not because they are indispensable or add actual value to the economy. The cynical conclusion to draw is that the common man will always be a working debt slave. A history of over 200 years of automation seems to support this conclusion, as people only have to work more and more to make ends meet.
  • taybin 13y ago
    I didn't say to pretend it's not there, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Employment is a serious issue and handwaving about painful, but worthwhile transitions to some utopia we aren't going to see in our lifetime doesn't seem realistic to me. We're not going to reach that utopia if there's an anti-capitalist revolution first.
• nawitus 13y ago
  And what could go right?