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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So because some people can't figure out which jobs are not going to be replaced with AI, we should just give them money to do nothing?  Why didn't countries do that during the industrial revolution, when automation began to reduce the need for manual labor in many roles?  Because it's a stupid idea which would merely encourage indolence instead of initiative.

There are new types of jobs developing all the time, and plenty of jobs which are largely unaffected or merely enhanced by AI.  Just because you're blind to them, or too wedded to what you do now, or to what you used to do, is no reason for society to just start supporting you instead of you figuring out how to support yourself.  [/quote]

Do you really think there are jobs that won’t be affected by AI?

Even if it’s a job that cannot be performed by AI, it will still be affected, more or less by one of these 2 things:

Fewer customers due to mass layoffs, for example less people are able to pay carpenters for renovations and repairs
Lower pay due to increased competition for jobs - if everyone moves to carpentry or other physical labor job, then those wages go down as well.

There is absolutely no job that is immune to these forces in some way or another.
It really is a race to the bottom, unless we do something about it.

In order to have a diverse and vibrant economy, we need more people to have jobs and spend money. 
We need some type of 21st century WPA to keep people in jobs. There is plenty of non laptop work that needs to be done. Unfortunately this will probably mean printing money, but the alternative is deflation and becoming underwater on our homes and that would also be a disaster.
Decoupling health insurance from employment would go along ways towards increased job flexibility and potentially job sharing or spreading FTEs out between more people as PT.
There’s only so much money a small group of billionaires can spend. Normal people’s spending is what keeps the wheels in motion and more people employed.[/quote]

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