100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)

Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by scrappyjoe on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:47AM (#42812229)

I suppose that house servants performed two functions - menial tasks, and emotional labour. Competence at both was essential. A house servant who was great at making beds but super annoying or had no emotional intelligence probably didn't last very long.

The menial tasks component will probably be automated away. Which leaves the emotional labour. Put another way, our job will be to be liked by the people with power. Liked enough to be kept around.

The only job left in the future is that of the pet.

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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by ashoeafoot on Friday January 24, 2025 @07:21AM (#42812421)

They were appliances. a kitchenaid at the farm of my great uncle did one job.. that of a kitchenaid. whisk and kneed all day+ gossip

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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by scrappyjoe on Friday January 24, 2025 @07:43AM (#42812567)

I'm not sure if you are confirming or rebutting my argument. In the future, no whisking. Gossip better be saucy if you want to stick around.

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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by 9rx on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:53AM (#42812261)

> our job will be to be liked by the people with power.

So, for most people, no change from the job they are already doing?

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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by scrappyjoe on Friday January 24, 2025 @07:42AM (#42812555)

I approve of this implication

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