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No, more progress = different employment. If we're going to protect all jobs eliminated by progress, then we'd better be prepared to become subsistence farmers. After all, advances in farming such as crop rotation and irrigation produced higher crop yields. This meant that fewer farmers were needed. The printing press eliminated scribe positions.
And you're ignoring the fact that progress creates jobs. Unless you think that Microsoft, Apple, Google, and everything Elon Musk touches hasn't resulted in any jobs. You know- producing their goods and services. Goods and services that weren't available 50 years ago.
So.... Do we all starve and die because capitalism?
How are you not seeing that you just illustrated how a large number of jobs were replaced by a small number of different jobs? Automation wouldn't be profitable if it didn't eliminate jobs.
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[–] Medicroger 1 point 6 points 7 points (+7|-1) ago
More progress = less employment.
Every food order taker, shelf stocker and truck driverjob could be replaced in 50ish years.
So.... Do we all starve and die because capitalism?
Or try to crush robots before they are born?
[–] SteelKidney 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
No, more progress = different employment. If we're going to protect all jobs eliminated by progress, then we'd better be prepared to become subsistence farmers. After all, advances in farming such as crop rotation and irrigation produced higher crop yields. This meant that fewer farmers were needed. The printing press eliminated scribe positions.
And you're ignoring the fact that progress creates jobs. Unless you think that Microsoft, Apple, Google, and everything Elon Musk touches hasn't resulted in any jobs. You know- producing their goods and services. Goods and services that weren't available 50 years ago.
No- we adapt.
[–] TheBrokenWorld 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
How are you not seeing that you just illustrated how a large number of jobs were replaced by a small number of different jobs? Automation wouldn't be profitable if it didn't eliminate jobs.
[–] Medicroger 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Your not thinking macro enough bro.
It's not going to take the same amount of people working at MCdonalds to fix the MCdonalds robots.
That's the whole point. EVERYTHING will be automated and controlled with computers.
The future is one where people are obsolete.
Basic income is one of many ideas people have been debating about to adapt to the change.
Progress, more efficient means to produce, litteraly means less people will be needed to produce the same amount, so yeah.
New jobs with progress, but only a fraction of the ones that new technology, what ever it is, replaced.