If your solution to the eradication of 4 million jobs, disproportionately affecting minorities, is to tell them to learn how to maintain and design automated systems, perhaps you should consider how minorities are doing in the tech industry like right now.
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I wish I had answers because automation's not stopping and UBI's not coming.
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The automation crisis, btw, started 40 years ago and we're about to see a new inflection point.pic.twitter.com/S5nxzKSVUi
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The automation crisis is nontrivially overblown but also dear god yes retraining is not really the answer to the question facing us.
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The only way it can be overblown is to pretend it didn't start 40 years ago.
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Mostly what I mean is that I think the people making these estimates of jobs lost believe Uber and Tesla's estimates, which are actually full of shit.
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Oh well yes they are full of shit but self-driving cars are not even the principal contributor.
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What do you see as the big driver or drivers? (Extrapolate from Uber & Tesla of course, but I'm curious as to your answer)
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Manufacturing is likely oldest. Retail is going strong.
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Is it? Some brick and mortars have survived, but many are cutting staff to the minimum. Except in higher end stores, you're not going to encounter a human until you get to the checkout counter (and even then).
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I meant that retail is going strong on its way to being automated away. Agree with you.
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And somehow do the retraining while taking care of a household before the mortgage is due. It’s not going to happen.
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you picked a good time to relocate tbh
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We can’t get elementary schools in Richmond funded, but there’s not going to be some huge uproar if anyone tries to fund “job training”?
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Plus, that didn't really work for tobacco jobs, shipbuilding, or mining, did it? Long term unemployment was the norm, even with retraining and heavy subsidies/tax breaks to encourage jobs in the areas. The job losses are permanent - people drop out of the labour market.
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