Ask HN: Do you feel fulfilled with your work?

Re:Ask HN: Do you feel fulfilled with your work? by sillysaurus3 on Friday June 23, 2017 @06:05AM (#14618075)

It doesn't take very many people out of work to wreak havoc. Food shortage is the main cause of revolt. There was an excellent paper on this that I can't find, but it's well-studied in academia. Here's a paper I haven't studied: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/food2025/blogfiles/14415.pdf

The great depression only had about 30% unemployment, for example. That "overautomation" phase isn't something you'll want to linger in without a plan to support these people.

EDIT: For a glimpse of the future, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXr7zB5M2A is worth listening to. It's the present, actually, but the struggles are only going to increase.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you feel fulfilled with your work? by daxfohl on Friday June 23, 2017 @11:02PM (#14624175)

Well, unless drug dealing is the next thing to get automated. :/

And even if there ever is a plan of how to deal with all this, I can't help but think it parallels the old sci-fi short story "With Folded Hands".

semi-sequitur: From my liberal bubble, the liberal bubble light bulb buzzes over my head thinking, perhaps that whole short story is exactly what strikes conservatives to the core. It kind of makes sense. I kind of see what they mean. Granted I have no clue what that has to do with gay rights. But for a second I understood. Sympathized, even. Anyway, back to the bubble.

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