Re:Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, s...
by minthd on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @08:51AM
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>> I find that number too high to be true. 10 or 20%, maybe; 40%
The 40% came from a study at oxford, which i think was a bit conservative , because it didn't take into account the possibility of creative jobs being automated.
>> I have no doubt we can create more office-based bullshit roles
Sure we can. But will we ? i'm not so sure.
>> but that is economically challenging unless we rethink how money is created and distributed.
If that happens , a lot of things would change, for both directions - more jobs and less jobs.
>> Again, this will not be touched by automation.
Automation is the less powerful technology working on healthcare. But if you can detect diseases very early , and have very effective , side-effect free and long-term treatments , healthcare will become more efficient.
Or let's talk about limited mobility(your example) - a leading cause is severe arthritis. But maybe we can cure that ?
>> home-births
Maybe we'll see growth there.But i would guess it's not that big of job provider. and even for home births, there's telemedicine and remote continuous monitoring , i think in use today - saving work.
The 40% came from a study at oxford, which i think was a bit conservative , because it didn't take into account the possibility of creative jobs being automated.
>> I have no doubt we can create more office-based bullshit roles
Sure we can. But will we ? i'm not so sure.
>> but that is economically challenging unless we rethink how money is created and distributed.
If that happens , a lot of things would change, for both directions - more jobs and less jobs.
>> Again, this will not be touched by automation.
Automation is the less powerful technology working on healthcare. But if you can detect diseases very early , and have very effective , side-effect free and long-term treatments , healthcare will become more efficient.
Or let's talk about limited mobility(your example) - a leading cause is severe arthritis. But maybe we can cure that ?
>> home-births
Maybe we'll see growth there.But i would guess it's not that big of job provider. and even for home births, there's telemedicine and remote continuous monitoring , i think in use today - saving work.