News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation. Parent comment

Re:The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation by mcv on Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:21AM (#13237063)
Exactly. The problem is that automation is the problem. Automation should be the solution. The goal of automation should not be to save labor costs for corporations and make people unemployed, it should be to increase productivity and make people have to work less, so they get more time to enjoy life.

Best way to accomplish this, I think, is to have a Basic Income. Give everybody enough to live, and increase that the more machines take over our work.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation by Eridrus on Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:32AM (#13237128)
Is job displacement really different from large productivity gain? Both of them result in you needing fewer employees for the same amount of output, and in the end automated systems still need supervision, and someone has to make them.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation by mcv on Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:43AM (#13237182)
The only difference is in what you do with it. Does it mean more profits for the owners and no money for the unemployed workers? Or does it mean workers get the same money for less work, now that machines can do it for them.

In our current economic system, we get the former. We need to change the system so it turns into the latter.

[ Parent | on HN ]