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0 pointsqaq3y ago0 comments

I think you are overestimating complexity of most office jobs.

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A lot of the simplest office jobs like typist and most managers personal secretaries have already been replaced.

These tools will increase productivity which will deprecate some jobs, but that is not at all the same thing as reducing overall employment.

tekknik3y ago

This is a real hand wavy way to look at it. How about on the individual level? How is an individual affected by this and can you put yourself in their shoes?

simonh3y ago

I can’t tell you which individual people will lose their jobs, or even which specific jobs will end up being cut and why. Can you? We’re both just making different estimates of the likely overall effects. I’m basing mine in the known historical effects of automation on economies and employment, and the fact that previous arguments that were all doomed by it have every single time turned out to be false.

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simonh3y ago

A lot of the simplest office jobs like typist and most managers personal secretaries have already been replaced.

These tools will increase productivity which will deprecate some jobs, but that is not at all the same thing as reducing overall employment.

tekknik3y ago

This is a real hand wavy way to look at it. How about on the individual level? How is an individual affected by this and can you put yourself in their shoes?

simonh3y ago

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