Report: 47% of U.S. Jobs At Risk of Being Automated Out of Existence
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Re: Report: 47% of U.S. Jobs At Risk of Being Automated Out of Existence
#2Link to the source paper:
http://www.futuretech.ox.ac.uk/sites/futuretech.ox.ac.uk/fil...
Re: Report: 47% of U.S. Jobs At Risk of Being Automated Out of Existence
#3Somewhere around 90% of U.S. Jobs were automated out of existence in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Is this time different?
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#4Somewhere around 90% of U.S. Jobs were automated out of existence in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Is this time different?
In the long run, I don't think so. You could argue change is happening much faster today, and people need to adapt to new jobs and skills faster, but on the other hand, there are also many more opportunities to choose from these days.
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#5Somewhere around 90% of U.S. Jobs were automated out of existence in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Is this time different?
Interesting, that is a much higher number than I had supposed. Do you have a source / link for it? I'd love to read more.
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#6Another report: As more jobs are getting automated, it opens up "new" job opportunities in new fields that are coming up. So net effect: not much. Point being that for centuries, we have been automating things that were done by humans at some point in time. Not much different even today.
Take one example of cellphones. It probably eliminated many "jobs" for people working in landline industries in the last decade or so BUT it probably added a lot more jobs in the telecom industry in general.
EDIT: based on some replies, I am not dismissing the fact completely that automation can have impacts on jobs. They definitely do but the point is that the number of jobs themselves do not dimish. It is the "type" of job that is changed which could surely be a problem for the displaced workers because they might not have the new skillset/experience ready to be employed.
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#8Somewhere around 90% of U.S. Jobs were automated out of existence in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Is this time different?
It depends on how fast we can find new material needs. We don't seem to be doing that very quickly though (in lots of areas we are regressing, becoming more efficient with our inputs).
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#9Somewhere around 90% of U.S. Jobs were automated out of existence in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Is this time different?
Interesting, that is a much higher number than I had supposed. Do you have a source / link for it? I'd love to read more.
Farmers dropped from 30 million to 3 million.
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#10Somewhere around 90% of U.S. Jobs were automated out of existence in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Is this time different?
In the long run, I don't think so. You could argue change is happening much faster today, and people need to adapt to new jobs and skills faster, but on the other hand, there are also many more opportunities to choose from these days.
More likely that change is happening much more slowly today.