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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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4/ But the choice isn't between "robots eating jobs" and "robots not eating jobs" or even "robots eating jobs and pooping more jobs"
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5/ Key questions that affect income security aren't about number of jobs, but nature of work. Free agency, gig economy are still the future.
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6/ "Ha ha, data shows robots not eating jobs!" may be easy counter to tech critics for now, but would be terrible news if actually true.
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7/ We WANT robots to eat jobs. We WANT big transformations to happen in the labor economy. Jobs suck. Why would we NOT want better model?
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8/ Fortunately that's still happening. Robots eating jobs and creating more liberated patterns of work than 9-5 bullshit-working.
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10/ Fortunately that's not stopping the progress and growth of non-job-like patterns of work (that increasingly resemble play) due to tech
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