Economics

Re-read the 2013 essay Bullshit Jobs, and I have a lot of new thoughts since I first read it. Primarily, it’s the greatest argument that AI will never put humans out of work. We’ll just invent new jobs for the humans.

Re-read the 2013 essay Bullshit Jobs, and I have a lot of new thoughts since I first read it. Primarily, it’s the greatest argument that AI will never put humans out of work. We’ll just invent new jobs for the humans. https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

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do you think the Keynes utopia, i.e. 10-hour workweek, is feasible, likely,  or inevitable?

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imho, "what's best" is off the table by now.

I wonder if a service-based economy can maximize employment and retain national fidelity, without the "non-bullshit" base of public responders and manufacturing.

I think it’s possible for some people but not on a large scale. I also don’t think it is actually what’s best for humans.