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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I rage quit the book out of frustration of his methodology but that was years ago. I should revisit now that I've mellowed a bit.

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I mean, the methodology is bad. It’s so easy to poke holes in and it ignores important parts of society such as without these so-called bullshit jobs, people wouldn’t just have time to relax and explore creative work. They’d be living in poverty.