Can Anyone Really Create Jobs?

Re:Can Anyone Really Create Jobs? by FD3SA on Saturday November 05, 2011 @09:45AM (#3199722)

Indeed. I am quite familiar with the Luddite fallacy. Unfortunately, it is predicated upon two assumptions:(1) humans are infinitely capable and re-trainable, and (2) technology creates more jobs than it automates.

Both of these assumptions are quite untenable given our understanding of human biology and technological progress.

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Re:Can Anyone Really Create Jobs? by skylan_q on Saturday November 05, 2011 @10:21AM (#3199778)

If we have reached the point where 2) is true, then there is no more work to do and everything is done! :D

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Re:Can Anyone Really Create Jobs? by steins on Saturday November 05, 2011 @11:22AM (#3199930)

re. Cushman:

Or maybe some people can move to farms, supplying more farm labor, sending farm worker wages down, and lowering the price of food to close to nothing? Ohh wait... minimum wage laws stop that from happening.

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Re:Can Anyone Really Create Jobs? by Cushman on Saturday November 05, 2011 @11:08AM (#3199893)

And in a world where you need a job to have food, we all starve to death.

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