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The idea is that technology makes doing anything undesirable totally optional. We made horses obsolete for transport, and now nobody HAS TO ride a horse (99%).
by hayksaakian 13y ago
The idea is that technology makes doing anything undesirable totally optional.
We made horses obsolete for transport, and now nobody HAS TO ride a horse (99%). You can do it for fun.
I would argue that today, most people who ride horses enjoy doing so, where the same could not be said for times before modern transportation.
- brazzy 13y agoNo, that is not the idea, because automatability and undesirability of tasks are largely unrelated. We will habe to find a way to deal with tasks that are unpleasant but can't be automated.
- Kliment 13y agoCompensate them appropriately, how about?
- pekk 13y agoOr find people to do them who are sufficiently desperate and low in status, compensate them just enough, make sure they don't have enough savings to walk, convince them they can't be hired elsewhere, collude with other employers to set wages, make harsh examples of anyone who pushes back, and do anything to prevent workers from organizing. This is much cheaper and considered socially acceptable or even laudable (depending on the country, certainly in the US). Businesses with a large share of their costs in unpleasant labor either do this or get destroyed by the competition. That's capitalism.
- coldtea 13y agoObviously that should only ever happy for CEO, golden parachute type of jobs, never blue collar stuff...