1/ First we jump at "robots eating jobs" out of unfounded fears. Now we dismiss it eagerly with structurally irrelevant near-term data.
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2/ The structural shift IS happening and will continue. It's just invisible in the data we track. Robots will eat jobs and create new work.
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3/ Plenty of questions can be asked to poke holes in "jobs back, nothing to see here!" counter-narrative: kinds of jobs, precarity, drop-out
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if anything, near-term full employment makes the robots eat jobs faster
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has gotten more true every year for the last 15. Don't expect overnight utopia, fall back if you can't handle frontier reality
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conventional sense of steady paycheck for relatively static expectations from a single employer for years on end
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Benefits beating precarity (on tech-enabled side). Fall back = retreat to old-school job growth sectors like nursing, fracking
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No. It's a bullshit concept that cannot work in social psychology terms. Humans are too restless for that.
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