DEEZ NUTS

GOT EM.

i failed

He lives in Kazookigookilondonistan, in the county of Abottawottalottabad. He beheaded my parents, in the dead of night. They never harmed nobody. But he done it all the same. Cut the power to our house, disabling the security system. He came in with an axe, doing that AYAYAYAYAYAYAYA shit they fucking do when they're killing infidels.

That's why I became Chris Kyle, and decided to take out my repressed homo-psychopathic urges out by going to Iraq and murdering children.

My computer just exploded.

There's still plenty of people manning the ticket booths.

It's the same with fast-food places.

Freeing up labour and making the order-taking system more efficiently simply increases demand for chefs, as they need to meet the higher churn of orders.

Automation pretty much wholly occurs to improve the consumers' experience, not to reduce the labour bill.

Iraq is also very religious and conservative.

GOT EM

This is a very popular trope among people, especially since CGP Grey's "Humans Need Not Apply" video, but it just isn't the case that automation will drastically increase long-run unemployment just because certain jobs will disappear.

• David Autor's Polanyi’s Paradox and the Shape of Employment GrowthAutor is notable here has he has massively advanced our understanding of the interaction between technology & labour over the last couple of decades, he posits automation as an extension of the Skill-Biased Technological Change hypothesis which represents manageable inequality changes (this is wage inequality, labour/capital shares remain stable but there is a clear divergence between types of labour actors) but no structural employment issues. The absence of structural employment is expected based on the way we understand technology to act on labour, as a productivity multiplier, and even if the SBTC hypothesis turns out to be incorrect this does not imply structural employment but rather a different form of inequality.
• Daron Acemoglu's Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? A more comprehensive discussion of the SBTC effect.
• The Future of Unemployment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? The oft-cited paper and the first to do a thorough review of the scale of labour disruption that may occur in the future.
• Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement Built on the prior paper to examine some of the productivity effects in a simple tech & non-tech worker model. While some inputs to their model do produce a result which suggests a reduction in labor demand their conclusion is that the likely outcome is the other kind of inequality (declining labor share) but again with a clear policy solution, they also have alternative policy solutions for avoiding the unlikely scenario of net labor demand falling.

More generally it's argued that, historically, automation has not reduced employment. Automation has historically acted as a multiplier on productivity which drives demand for human labour. Pre-singularity its very hard to imagine this changing, we will undoubtedly encounter disruption effects (people will have the wrong skills, their earnings will reflect this matching issue rather than unemployment doing so) but from an economics perspective there is little difference between replacing a field worker with a tractor and an office worker with an algorithm. Certainly the office worker needs to find a new job, if they don't have demanded skills that job may not offer earnings growth opportunities but it doesn't imply unemployment any more than the mechanization of agriculture did.

You're such a post whore.

Cancer.

Think an economist could cobble together a thermonuclear warhead in the middle of a shitty desert?

If economists ruled the world we would've never cut off their oil in the first place.

even though none of them have actually ran more than a few laps in their lives

The only lap a Sonic fan has encountered is mine.

What the fuck is this shit.

With his engineering pseudoscience.

I think we're all missing the point here that physics is clearly a pseudoscience.

Like sociology.

Worth it.