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Except administration is what should be mostly automated. Or at least, with computers, it should take far less people than when secretaries were banging on type
by auxym 12y ago
Except administration is what should be mostly automated. Or at least, with computers, it should take far less people than when secretaries were banging on typewriters and financialists and accountants were sliding slide rules.
I can't see research and teaching become automated.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoIt's funny that it's the "good honest" jobs that get automated, and people are pushed toward unproductive wasting of resources. I wonder if ten years from now, more than half of the working-age people will be employed either in administration or advertising...
- sdenton4 12y agocf David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' essay: http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/