Creating replacement jobs for those lost to AI. Ideas?

[Anonymous]

If AI takes all of the (high) paying jobs, who is going to have money to spend on AI and AI goods and services? Do we just go back to subsistence living with a bunch of AI feudal lords?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lol, you want the government to create new agencies to put people to work. Ummmm…

Fair point as to WPA.

But who says it has to be the federal government? State governments could step in here too, and plenty of states are not MAGA.

OP--are you living under a rock? Yes, federal governments can step in and create jobs. But not this federal government under Trump which has made it their raison d'etre to fire federal employees doing essential work. And they're also cutting federal grants to states. Change the federal government (POTUS and/or Congress) and then we can talk about public interventions to support job creation. But with the land of DOGE, the only jobs that are going to be created are those which benefit the holdings of Elon Musk and other Trump donors/affiliates.

[Anonymous]

There's a great Dilbert Reborn where the Pointy Haired Boss tries to fire Dilbert because he can replace him with AI, only Dilbert points out the boss needs someone to interface with the AI and do maintenance on it. When Pointy Haired Boss says he'll hire a consultant, Dilbert names his price as the new AI consultant and it's much higher than a software engineer salary.

So there's that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Uncouple health insurance from employment and the rest will organically take care of itself.

What do you mean here? Just curious and how it could affect everything.

Employee health insurance costs are a huge expense for employers, therefore employers seek to maximize the amount of hours given to each employee rather than hire more employees to spread the work out more. That is also why there aren’t many good part time jobs.

Also, uncoupling health insurance from employment would allow people more security and flexibility in their lives. This would make it easier for regular people to start a business, choose jobs that work for their families, and start new creative ventures. This could also make companies more competitive in the global market.
This would also allow small companies to compete with larger companies since they would not be as disadvantaged by the larger per capita overhead costs; whereas currently smaller companies are disadvantaged by not having the buying leverage that larger ones do when negotiation health plan prices.

Those and probably a million other reasons to uncouple healthcare from employment. And we also need to uncouple it from private equity and profit, but also keep consumer-driven controls to incentivize the consumer to make good lifestyle choices and keep costs low. I’ll get my Excel out, lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will eventually take someone or multiple people who love humanity to altruistically create a society where people are guaranteed dignity and resources despite not working.

People will always have something to do. Our physical spaces need curation, cleaning and adapting at least. But will we always have money-making things to do?

What a smarmy half-wit you are. Dumbf**k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will eventually take someone or multiple people who love humanity to altruistically create a society where people are guaranteed dignity and resources despite not working.

People will always have something to do. Our physical spaces need curation, cleaning and adapting at least. But will we always have money-making things to do?

What a smarmy half-wit you are. Dumbf**k.

Or maybe the post is some kind of "reference."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Restaurants will still need chefs, hostesses, bartenders, plus waiters and waitresses.

Could growth in the restaurant sector replace the jobs lost to ai ?

Hostesses not so much. Some are already using robot waiters/waitresses.

Saw a video recently of a robot cooking also.

Remember the scene in "The Fifth Element" of the robot bartender? Wouldn't be hard to replicate that even with current tech.

Ok, but what’s the solution to this? It would seem like an easy bill to pass to ban automated help in restaurants.

That would be wrong and probably even illegal with current law.
Would still be wrong to tell people what to do with their businesses in that regards, regardless of what "laws" there are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uncouple health insurance from employment and the rest will organically take care of itself.

What do you mean here? Just curious and how it could affect everything.

Employee health insurance costs are a huge expense for employers, therefore employers seek to maximize the amount of hours given to each employee rather than hire more employees to spread the work out more. That is also why there aren’t many good part time jobs.

Also, uncoupling health insurance from employment would allow people more security and flexibility in their lives. This would make it easier for regular people to start a business, choose jobs that work for their families, and start new creative ventures. This could also make companies more competitive in the global market.
This would also allow small companies to compete with larger companies since they would not be as disadvantaged by the larger per capita overhead costs; whereas currently smaller companies are disadvantaged by not having the buying leverage that larger ones do when negotiation health plan prices.

Those and probably a million other reasons to uncouple healthcare from employment. And we also need to uncouple it from private equity and profit, but also keep consumer-driven controls to incentivize the consumer to make good lifestyle choices and keep costs low. I’ll get my Excel out, lol

Have to admit, you have some interesting points there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI customer service is SO bad. I called a company to get a quote and the AI bot didn’t understand wtf I was talking about. I eventually gave up and looked elsewhere where I could speak with a person.

Easy to have the same experiences with outsourced humans as well.

[Anonymous]

Come mow my lawn under the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uncouple health insurance from employment and the rest will organically take care of itself.
Remaining jobs can be spread out more. Maybe the new work week will be 30 hours.

Yes Medicare for all and 30 hour workweek!

[Anonymous]

This is likely not a problem in need of a solution.

There have been concerns about mass unemployment due to automation since the start of the industrial revolution. It hasn't happened yet. Jobs have changed, but mass unemployment has never been a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is likely not a problem in need of a solution.

There have been concerns about mass unemployment due to automation since the start of the industrial revolution. It hasn't happened yet. Jobs have changed, but mass unemployment has never been a problem.

True, but it will be soon, as population globally keeps rising, while technology keeps negating the need for a large labor force.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mass job loss due to automation has been predicted since the industrial revolution. It hasn't happened yet. Jobs have changed, but not gone away. This seems to be the likely pattern that will be repeated in the coming decades.

Tell that to the countless people stuck in the many dead American towns that used to be booming with middle class jobs. AI is just another version of “outsourcing to china” that outsources to robots instead of another country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use AI to do your own job 5x better. Try to think through how you can use it and leverage your abilities.

You came here and gave sensible answer, how dare you.