Re:Uber and Lyft Are Adding Jobs, Not Just Stealing Them
by dragonwriter on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:05PM
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> If you can get a machine to do something that a human can do then you give that human the opportunity to place his focus, time and attention elsewhere.
Assuming the human was rational, what they were doing was already the thing that provided them the greatest utility of the options they had -- if putting their focus, time, and attention elsewhere was more beneficial to them, they already would have been doing it.
If you remove that option, unless there is some better new option created for that same human -- rather than merely displacing them from their best option -- then they experience a net utility loss.
Assuming the human was rational, what they were doing was already the thing that provided them the greatest utility of the options they had -- if putting their focus, time, and attention elsewhere was more beneficial to them, they already would have been doing it.
If you remove that option, unless there is some better new option created for that same human -- rather than merely displacing them from their best option -- then they experience a net utility loss.