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0 pointsjstx12y ago0 comments

> And don't get me started on Humans Need Not Apply.

Well now you have to tell us. :) Many of the concrete examples in that video are exaggerated and/or misunderstood but the general question it asks - what to do when automation makes many people unemployable through no fault of their own - seems valid.

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musicale2y ago

> what to do when automation makes many people unemployable through no fault of their own - seems valid

Unfortunately the video doesn't answer its own question directly.

The answer for the past 40 years or so seems to be "move them to lower-paying service jobs, or out of the job market entirely."

robotresearcher2y ago

Another part of the answer over the last 40 (or 200) years, is to repeatedly create totally new industries that employ lots of people, including a large fraction of HN readers.

ketzo2y ago

Yeah, but what does the Venn diagram look like there?

Yes, new technologies create new jobs.

But it’s not usually the people from the old jobs who are taking those new jobs.

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j33zusjuice2y ago

I find this discussion fascinating, but YouTube is one of the last places I’d go for that discussion, unless it’s a debate between two highly-regarded minds on the topic (like Chomsky vs Foucault back in the day). I’m not very interested in listening to random people tell me their ideas without any good pathways for critiques or questions.

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