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For as long as humans have been able to fashion tools, the advance of technology has always meant that people have lost jobs through redundancy. As ever, people like yourself are decrying the loss of jobs.
Isn't it time that we do the intelligent thing and learn the lesson that has been taught to us repeatedly for millenia and apply ourselves to how we might reshape the workforce before people lose their jobs? Or are we still too attached to the tired old sackcloth and ashes routine and need to wait for the bad thing to happen first?
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That one, yeah that one. The bad thing happens first and then we complain about it one.
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Isn't it time that we do the intelligent thing and learn the lesson that has been taught to us repeatedly for millenia and apply ourselves to how we might reshape the workforce before people lose their jobs? Or are we still too attached to the tired old sackcloth and ashes routine and need to wait for the bad thing to happen first?
My main concern here isn't so much about automation (which is a problem, because it causes de-skilling and alienation), but the attempts by these companies to erect global oligopolies or even monopolies. A separate worry is about self-driving cars causing ever less active travel, which I believe is a certainty, but that applies more generally and not only to Uber.
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I completely agree. its really a no brainer to balance people's work/life balance by reducing the hours people work, incentivising part time working etc... all of which would need regulation and intervention in the labour market, which is deemed anti-capitalist, left wing madness at the moment. It is the global oligopolies and monopolies (that worry @Oliver Schick) that call the shots rather than elected government.
(I also worry like olver about the lack of activity these technologies herald and the innate laziness of our species damning us all to hell...)
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Oliver Schick
skydancer
That will piss off sooo many people. Cabbies as well as uber drivers.
In fact with so many people about to lose work because of this tech, no one will be able to afford to take a trip in these