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    1. Wesley Yang‏ @wesyang 10 Nov 2019

      Wesley Yang Retweeted Paul Graham

      This is what Andrew Yang noticed while working to build out startup ecosystem in Rust Belt: tech will always generate order of magnitude fewer jobs (mostly for high skill workers)than industrial era enterprises, leaving less educated folks out in the coldhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1161483728574722053 …

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      Paul GrahamVerified account @paulg
      When people visit your startup, they should be surprised how few people you have. A visitor who walks around and is impressed by the magnitude of your operation is implicitly saying "Did it really take all these people to make that crappy product?"
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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Nov 2019
      Replying to @wesyang

      There's a mistake in your reasoning. Doing a task with fewer people means fewer jobs if the total amount done is capped, but it's not.

      6:03 AM - 10 Nov 2019
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        1. Josep Monés Teixidor‏ @jmones 10 Nov 2019
          Replying to @paulg @wesyang

          I agree with that, Paul. However it's also true that most jobs address less and less important needs. And that we dedicate percentually more and more jobs on competing, rather than serving those needs. Sometimes I wonder: are we "overengineering" the world?

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        2. Wesley Yang‏ @wesyang 10 Nov 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          But when at the core business is a device to automate cognitive labor at essentially zero marginal cos....

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        3. Nate Fischer‏ @NateAFischer 10 Nov 2019
          Replying to @wesyang @paulg

          Nate Fischer Retweeted Nate Fischer

          https://twitter.com/nateafischer/status/1193638869356490752?s=21 …

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          Nate Fischer @NateAFischer
          Critical point. There are always unmet needs/desires, and a core element of human nature is our entrepreneurial ability to find new opportunities. Technology today, as at every point in the past, can give people more leverage to pursue these https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1193529646459105280 …
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        2. αlpha-Minus‏ @AlphaMinus2 10 Nov 2019
          Replying to @paulg @wesyang

          Above api work isn't capped, below api it is definetly capped. Educated elite win, the median person loses

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        3. Nate Fischer‏ @NateAFischer 10 Nov 2019
          Replying to @AlphaMinus2 @paulg @wesyang

          That’s simply a factor of the design of recent tech tools. Tools could be designed to give a far larger range of people access to the power of technology (see Excel as good example of this)

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        1. alth0u  🤸‏ @alth0u 10 Nov 2019
          Replying to @paulg @wesyang

          It's not about can we create more work. It's can we make sure people don't have to work for a living...

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