@paulg What net jobs are? What does it mean — net jobs?
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@zettel_kasten Net jobs are what you have left when you subtract jobs eliminated from new jobs created. - End of conversation
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@jlindsay It reduces the labor necessary to achieve a given result.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Historically true. True now & in future? World changes ever faster, but not people. Society's plan? Companies profit, workers pay. -
Technology & automation should liberate people. Instead it chains them to faster treadmills. http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2012/05/27/corny_economics …
#society#jobs#ethics
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@paulg I disagree. Explain how new jobs are created when taxis drive themselves.#basicincome -
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@paulg I'm pretty sure that on average technology directly eliminates many more jobs than it creates.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg technology is an enabler, mixed with some good policies it becomes a bliss! World extreme poverty has be cut in half since 90sThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg important to remember that everything we use could once be defined as "technology". Even fire.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Are you prepared to claim that the set of things computers and machines can do will NEVER be a superset of the things humans can do?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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