Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo...
by maverick_iceman on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:10PM
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You realize that you could have made the same argument over the past 200 years? "Who'll buy all the farm produce when there are no fRm workers left?"
Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo...
by api on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:11PM
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The difference is massive economic growth between the industrial revolution and today. Jobs lost to industrialization were quickly replaced as the economy grew exponentially in size and complexity.
Today growth is very anemic owing to market saturation and declining birth rates.
And while labor-saving tech is, overall a good thing, there are lots of people still counting on those mundane jobs to put food on the table. And so far, no one is willing to think of what happens to them, or prepare for when those jobs go away. And if we don't do that, if we rely on "the market" to do the right thing, we will see that epic labor shortage which leads to the dystopian future.