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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So automate away all the jobs? What are people supposed to do then?
There will come a time where it's pointless for some humans to work because everything they do machines can do better.
Not every job... somebody has to make the money from automation otherwise what's the point?
You are assuming you cannot be automated away, why?
sounds great, until automation takes over and there aren't any jobs in government that can productively done by humans
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.
Why wouldn't we want jobs to be automated exactly?
no one wants to automate themselves out of a job, only other people.
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.
we automate so much, we end up making human redundant