Re:Are jobs obsolete?
by Helianthus on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @05:03PM
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>We're talking about the complete obsolescence of an entire group of skilled tradespeople due to automation.
Coincident with a huge increase in unemployment and a saturation of educated workers without employment, this means a _broad swath_ of the workforce across many strata is simply _going unused._ This is unsurprisingly making us wonder if the concept of everyone having a job is going to die.
The continued existence of jobs wouldn't contravene the death of employment as a societal universal.
which is to say, I'm not saying that there won't be jobs, I'm saying that _what we're actually discussing_ is exactly the deconstruction you recommended.
Coincident with a huge increase in unemployment and a saturation of educated workers without employment, this means a _broad swath_ of the workforce across many strata is simply _going unused._ This is unsurprisingly making us wonder if the concept of everyone having a job is going to die.
The continued existence of jobs wouldn't contravene the death of employment as a societal universal.
which is to say, I'm not saying that there won't be jobs, I'm saying that _what we're actually discussing_ is exactly the deconstruction you recommended.