> RELAX. MACHINES ALREADY TOOK OUR JOBS
I don't think the analogy holds at all, people used to be moved from intensive labor jobs (mines/fields) to less intensive and less physical jobs (factories, &c.) and earned workers rights, vacations, min wages &c. in the process. Now they're moved from low skill min wage jobs (factories, warehouses) to precarity and meaningless jobs, min wages aren't rising, retirement age is increasing, quality of life is stagnating [0] ...
Automation is fine as long as it brings something positive to the workers, today it doesn't bring anything to the workers. The only people benefiting from it are the people designing the tools and the companies replacing workers with these tools, I doubt this would represent more than 10% of the global population.
If we don't rethink our concept or "work and "jobs" we're going to have a real bad time, we can already see it today with growing inequalities and it's only going to accelerate.
Instead of talking about how a machine can harvest more potatoes than a farmer we should talk about how much social misery is created. It's more of a moral and social problem than a technical one.
[0] Don't come to me with "people have netflix and 4k TV so their lives are better now than 50 years ago"
I don't think the analogy holds at all, people used to be moved from intensive labor jobs (mines/fields) to less intensive and less physical jobs (factories, &c.) and earned workers rights, vacations, min wages &c. in the process. Now they're moved from low skill min wage jobs (factories, warehouses) to precarity and meaningless jobs, min wages aren't rising, retirement age is increasing, quality of life is stagnating [0] ...
Automation is fine as long as it brings something positive to the workers, today it doesn't bring anything to the workers. The only people benefiting from it are the people designing the tools and the companies replacing workers with these tools, I doubt this would represent more than 10% of the global population.
If we don't rethink our concept or "work and "jobs" we're going to have a real bad time, we can already see it today with growing inequalities and it's only going to accelerate.
Instead of talking about how a machine can harvest more potatoes than a farmer we should talk about how much social misery is created. It's more of a moral and social problem than a technical one.
[0] Don't come to me with "people have netflix and 4k TV so their lives are better now than 50 years ago"