Automation Job Loss

The cluster debates the consequences of automation replacing human jobs, including fears of widespread unemployment, redundancy of labor, and counterarguments that it frees people for more meaningful work or has historically created new opportunities.

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manigandham Mar 17, 2020 View on HN

So automate away all the jobs? What are people supposed to do then?

jules Feb 26, 2010 View on HN

There will come a time where it's pointless for some humans to work because everything they do machines can do better.

krapp Feb 15, 2014 View on HN

Not every job... somebody has to make the money from automation otherwise what's the point?

bowyakka Dec 9, 2016 View on HN

You are assuming you cannot be automated away, why?

gruez Mar 10, 2018 View on HN

sounds great, until automation takes over and there aren't any jobs in government that can productively done by humans

jameslevy Mar 20, 2020 View on HN

It's best to assume that as a rule, people don't get meaning from work that can easily (if not inexpensively) be done by a robot.

bembo Mar 28, 2024 View on HN

Why wouldn't we want jobs to be automated exactly?

mdcox Jan 26, 2023 View on HN

no one wants to automate themselves out of a job, only other people.

erik_seaberg Feb 1, 2021 View on HN

When we invented machines that did many of the jobs horses did, we did not find other jobs for those horses to do. Now for the first time we are inventing cost-effective machines that can see and move things and apply tools without close supervision, which is all that people are doing in a lot of jobs. I’m not confident we’re going to find a similar amount of useful work that only a person could do.

tonyhart7 Feb 15, 2025 View on HN

we automate so much, we end up making human redundant