RE: Technological Unemployment Is On The Way And It Can't Come Fast Enough
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Your employment chart got me wondering how that compares to population. Turns out Y2K was the high water mark for employment.
Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=FbkL
You're right that this is all portrayed negatively when we should be thanking our lucky stars to live in such an advanced age. I just saw a headline that restaurants were turning to ordering through an app so they don't have to have as many waiters. And my first reaction was thank god they won't fuck up my order now.
The trick to technological unemployment is finding meaning in one's life without a job. Lots of people say they want to live the easy life, but it ends up not being so easy.
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I agree completely. People need to focus upon building stuff, whatever that is. We are going to see a lot of technology that will enhance what we are capable of doing. While AI can be all over the place in terms of how we are progressing (depending upon your views), there is no doubt that we are likely to see advancement in coding where the average person can simply describe something and it will be created for us. Hence, we all can develop things that interest and amuse us.
Interesting about the population factor added in. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it. I know the Great Recession cause a "lost generation". I personally knew a few people in the late 50s who were basically put out to pasture at that time and never recovered. They were basically out of the work force struggling until they got to social security (which isnt much of a life either).
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