Posted: May 26, 2019 6:16 am
Macdoc wrote:tuco wrote:
@Macdoc Have you ever worked such job? Rhetorical. Automation frees people for menial and mundane tasks, literally.
Yes ..and ??
Seems to me it frees corporations from paying staff the reason I refuse categorically to use self checkout.
Oregon has a law that does not allow people to self serve their own gas ....and I'm fine with that.
You seem to think that one kind of work is superior to another ...making a good burger is as meaningful as designing a skyscraper.....depends on what you bring to it....and if you parse that reference I'll be impressed.
Not necessarily free corporation from paying. We've been over this in Post-Work Society? thread. Even here I said
tuco wrote:Sure, there are questions ...
You said:
Macdoc wrote:makes me wonder about the pursuit of automation....people need jobs.
That you wonder will not stop automation. The only thing to do is to figure out answers to the mentioned questions, just like Bill Gates was trying in one of the links in the Post-works society thread. That is the way to go, that is how visionaries think.
I think one kind of work superior to another? Well, I think all work should be paid equally. How is that for superior? Burger flipper getting paid the same as an architect. How do you like that?