Quit your whining. This is a good thing people and it's an example of what makes capitalism great.
Read up on Joseph Schumpeter [newschool.edu], arguably the most brilliant economist to come out of Austria. One's inability to see that the move of IT labor offshore is a good thing is largely due to a failure of most people to understand Schumpeter.
Schumpeter's primary focus was on capitalism as a dynamic system. It continually evolves through creative destruction. There are countless examples of this phenom
Quit your whining. This is a good thing people and it's an example of what makes capitalism great.
Sure... if you subscribe to the theory that a class-based culture is a healthy thing.
If you've read this gentleman's writings, you'll glean that this isn't just another routine shift in employment - we're heading toward a watershed event, a singularity. In the past, as old industries became obsolete, the work force laid off from one profession got dumped into the "generic labor" pool... y'know, the Walmart g
Honestly, I don't see robots as being as big a deal as the transition from an agricultural to an industry society! As the previous poster said, in the last century the jobs that 90% of people had had FOR THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION went away in a couple of generations. Now THAT'S a watershed.
Also, rapid change erodes static classes, it doesn't save them. If what the jobs look like change every generation, you'll have a lot more social mobility between generations. Class is already an extremely fluid thing in America, in a way that they really wouldn't be considered "classes" by a 19th century Brit, and definitely not by an 18th century Javanese.
An average farmer could be trained to do manual work at the factory. Some training was needed, but not very much. With robots, there might not be (that's what the parent and Brain argue) any job for those 50% (or 90%) of the people, simply because even the new jobs could be performed by robots. And you can develop new robots as fast as you can invent new jobs.
If we want to understand transitions between social orders, we need to check what Marx and Engels wrote (and also how scientists in Soviet Union, esp
Hear, hear. The robot argument devolves to the myth that if we just had 100% employment, everything would be great. There are plenty of jobs out there, but no-one seems to want to be a grass-blade straightener at the going rate. How could regulating robots, or raising the minimum wage, help this?
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People will adapt (Score:-1, Redundant)
Read up on Joseph Schumpeter [newschool.edu], arguably the most brilliant economist to come out of Austria. One's inability to see that the move of IT labor offshore is a good thing is largely due to a failure of most people to understand Schumpeter.
Schumpeter's primary focus was on capitalism as a dynamic system. It continually evolves through creative destruction. There are countless examples of this phenom
Re:People will adapt (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure... if you subscribe to the theory that a class-based culture is a healthy thing.
If you've read this gentleman's writings, you'll glean that this isn't just another routine shift in employment - we're heading toward a watershed event, a singularity. In the past, as old industries became obsolete, the work force laid off from one profession got dumped into the "generic labor" pool... y'know, the Walmart g
As big a watershed as leaving Agriculture behind (Score:5, Insightful)
Also, rapid change erodes static classes, it doesn't save them. If what the jobs look like change every generation, you'll have a lot more social mobility between generations. Class is already an extremely fluid thing in America, in a way that they really wouldn't be considered "classes" by a 19th century Brit, and definitely not by an 18th century Javanese.
Re:As big a watershed as leaving Agriculture behin (Score:2)
If we want to understand transitions between social orders, we need to check what Marx and Engels wrote (and also how scientists in Soviet Union, esp
Re:As big a watershed as leaving Agriculture behin (Score:1)