Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

Re:Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to ... by rubidium on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @06:53AM (#16419660)

Oh, that's an interesting question. I've seen a graph of (US) advertising spend vs GDP which seems to hold constant over the last 70 years.

But to lump all FB/snap/twitter into entertainment+advertising and get % of the population working for those companies would be interesting.

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Re:Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to ... by mseebach on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:17AM (#16419759)

But then you start doing violence to the categories. Twitter/Facebook certainly have entertainment functions, but they also have tentacles reaching deep into publishing and news. Now, suddenly a like for like comparison needs to include newspapermen, typesetters, printers and papermill workers.

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Re:Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to ... by rubidium on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:41AM (#16421134)

Well get to work then : )

But seriously, I hope data-minded grad students/sociologists are investigating this more.

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