BLS 10-year forecast: robot cashiers, math nerds, and many healthcare workers
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Re: BLS 10-year forecast: robot cashiers, math nerds, and many healthcare workers
#2Actual report, much easier to ingest data (1)
That said, what I'd be far more interested in is where the labor shortfalls are expected to be. Also, we can predict that the health aide labor market will eventually fall off. High school class size maxed out around 2009 (2)
1) https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecopro.pdf
2) https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/mobile/Enrollment_ES_Pub...
Re: BLS 10-year forecast: robot cashiers, math nerds, and many healthcare workers
#3It is quite dystopian how much of our productive capacity is geared towards making people less sick.
Re: BLS 10-year forecast: robot cashiers, math nerds, and many healthcare workers
#4It is quite dystopian how much of our productive capacity is geared towards making people less sick.
Interesting, I have the opposite reaction; it seems virtually utopian to me (especially if you define "sick" broadly).
Re: BLS 10-year forecast: robot cashiers, math nerds, and many healthcare workers
#5They need to go review the results of AlphaGo again
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#6It is quite dystopian how much of our productive capacity is geared towards making people less sick.
Why? Healthcare is a luxury good. As you have more income, you spend more on health.
Re: BLS 10-year forecast: robot cashiers, math nerds, and many healthcare workers
#7Actual report, much easier to ingest data (1) That said, what I'd be far more interested in is where the labor shortfalls are expected to be. Also, we can predict that the health aide labor market will eventually fall off. High school class size maxed out around 2009 (2) 1) https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecopro.pdf 2) https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/mobile/Enrollment_ES_Pub...
For comparison, the report from 2006 on projections for 2016:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecopro_12042007.pd...
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#8It is quite dystopian how much of our productive capacity is geared towards making people less sick.
It is one of the steps towards singularity, which have immediate positive effects on the people currently alive.
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#9When it comes to acquiring a conceptual framework for understanding the future, Alvin Toffler is your man. His books will never let you down.
Re: BLS 10-year forecast: robot cashiers, math nerds, and many healthcare workers
#10900 mathematicians is a ~30% increase?