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Re:The threat of technological unemployment by srssays on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:59PM (#13266562)
Many people desperately want to be artists. They may go to college and study Art. But the world only needs so many artists. So, if they don't have any other skill, these people inevitably find employment making a low wage in the service industry.
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Re:The threat of technological unemployment by Kalium on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @05:03PM (#13266586)
You're right! There are many people who want to be artists! There are many people who find happiness and fulfillment in nature, civil society, activism, music, and more. These people want these things desperately and they want to not have to work to do them.

You're completely right. There are lots of these people. I simply do not believe that this number is large enough to significantly alter the analysis I have offered.

Am I generalizing? Of course I'm generalizing. There's no other way to meaningfully talk about tens of millions of unique, special, individual human beings.

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