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What he's avoiding saying is that while the need to hire more people isn't going away those human workers displaced by technology will, in all likelihood, be ou
by biot 12y ago
What he's avoiding saying is that while the need to hire more people isn't going away those human workers displaced by technology will, in all likelihood, be out of a job because there is now a higher-order job that they are unqualified to do. The savings from from automating the warehouse gets reinvested back into Kiva systems, for example. And it's not a 1:1 replacement either as it takes the elimination of a handful of minimum wage warehouse workers to let Amazon hire just one more engineer.
- chii 12y agobut that's the natural progression - if all you can do is move some packages from A to B, then you aren't worth very much, and when time comes that such jobs get automated, you _have_ to either skill up, or "die" off. Being able to make a good living isn't a right.