Interesting article about the decrease in young men working in favor of leisure activities that hits upon @antoniogm's tweet yesterday about how the bet of SV is that we can quell a labor revolt when jobs are automated away w/these types of distractions:http://kortina.nyc/essays/kinky-labor-supply-and-the-attention-tax/ …
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I don't like the solution of an "attention" tax but it's certainly an interesting and difficult problem. While the authors worry about decreased economic growth, it's probable to me that automation would more than cover for it.
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The sad and likely more important question is how to keep the population "amused into irrelevance" so they don't revolt as
@antoniogm phrased it. Improving video games/VR/sexbots + drugs will likely be a big part of the solution.Show this thread
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