Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs

Re:Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs by Supermancho on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:13PM (#30080405)

> Slaving away 40 hours a week on a bullshit job that can be trivially automated is not a benefit per se.

For some workers, that's a huge benefit. If they get ousted they have to find another degenerate position or work for a lower salary. Usually it's both.

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Re:Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs by clusterfish on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:17AM (#30082732)

I mean that money is the benefit, not the work itself. Our wealth distribution system is not suitable for significant levels of automation at all - that is the root of the problem, not automation itself.

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Re:Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs by imtringued on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:11AM (#30098083)

People measure prosperity by employment, not the work they do, which is how we get backwards economics where it is better to destroy the planet.

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