Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
by hnpolicestate on Sunday June 29, 2025 @04:37PM
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"Convince me I should fund people to focus full-time on things where they can't make a living" - because you wrote the programs that made their job (like everyone else's job) obsolete/automated?
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Automation increases productivity which increases employment (ceteris paribus).
The important quote you want here is: “If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what [Alan] Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.”
Software developers are not Alan Greenspan.