Re:Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not?
by morkalork on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:13PM
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That example doesn't hold up once you expand your view to other countries. Where are all these jobs that magically materialize in labour surplus economies like Brazil or Bangladesh?
Re:Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not?
by cal_dent on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:00PM
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Yes, i do feel that many people woho talk about jevon's paradox element of employment have not spent much time in developing economies. You can have a lot of people doing absolutely nothing, economically, day to day and still have a functioning state
Re:Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not?
by tim333 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:12AM
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In the UK we have approx 22 million adults doing not much so you can see it in developed places too.
If you look at 1940, women were ~24% of the workforce. Now in 2025 they are ~48%. The numbers are probably similar with immigrant workers having increased greatly in the last 80 years.
If you view AI workers as just more labor flooding the workforce it might have a similar affect. If we flooded the 1940s economy with 10s of millions of qualified women and immigrant laborers people would have viewed it as devastating to the economy, but introduced gradually over time we arrive at a point now where we fear what would happen if they went away.