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As long as a human being is able to create anything of value, jobs are not going away, and that will never stop being the case. No need to even invent anything
by xixi77 13y ago
As long as a human being is able to create anything of value, jobs are not going away, and that will never stop being the case.
No need to even invent anything. Take, for example, the personal help industry: it is pretty much non-existant in most developed world right now -- yet, it has until very recently been a source of employment for millions of people, and in other places (e.g. India or Hong Kong) still very much is. The problem is not with jobs, it's with people imagining that the way the world was for the last 50 years is anything representative of its natural state.
What might go away to some extent are wage jobs -- i.e. jobs where wages are exchanged for labor at a fixed rate, and employees have no equity stake. Such jobs are an artifact of a modern industrial society, and if our society changes enough, I can imagine them being replaced with something else (there were no such jobs before industrial revolution, and even now in developing countries you won't see as many, e.g., fast food employees -- most of the things that are currently being done by wage employees can be done by self-employed people. There is definitely a lot of momentum going on in that direction, primarily driven by regulation. You can also imagine an increase in popular support for things like basic income.