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Dr. Quadragon ❌

"Jobs automation problem" is not really a jobs *automation* problem. It's a *jobs* problem.

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Dr. Quadragon ❌

I'll elaborate.

As humans, we want and need and crave automation, science and technology is what we do as the species. The automation is there precisely for that reason: to eliminate jobs we'd rather not be doing, so we could move on to something more interesting and meaningful.

A small (and ever shrinking) subset of humans wants and needs the whole world to keep the concept of a "job" as a requirement for survival of pretty much everybody who isn't them, because it's what their ever-growing economically superior status relies on. They want everybody else to NEED jobs, so they don't have to!

You see, it's kind of a contradiction: we can't have both at the same time. And I don't know about you, but in my books, the imperative for the species trumps the imperative for a small subset of it.

I'll elaborate.

As humans, we want and need and crave automation, science and technology is what we do as the species. The automation is there precisely for that reason: to eliminate jobs we'd rather not be doing, so we could move on to something more interesting and meaningful.

A small (and ever shrinking) subset of humans wants and needs the whole world to keep the concept of a "job" as a requirement for survival of pretty much everybody who isn't them, because it's what their ever-growing economically...

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