the future won't be kind to unskilled labor
how education needs to adapt and teach skills
Think bigger. That is the first phase of the problem. One that has already started. Eg McDonalds.
But is not just unskilled labour that need to worry. You may have more time, but your clock is ticking too.
AI will learn to do your job, better and cheaper than you.
Construction, accounting, engineering, everything. AI will eventually have far fewer limits than humans.
We're moving into an age where all jobs will become obsolete.
Capitalism can not cope with that. Changes will have to be made, or collapse becomes inevitable.
You an I probably have enough time, but our children will have to confront that reality.
>the future won't be kind to unskilled labor
>how education needs to adapt and teach skills
Think bigger. That is the first phase of the problem. One that has already started. Eg McDonalds.
But is not just unskilled labour that need to worry. You may have more time, but your clock is ticking too.
AI will learn to do your job, better and cheaper than you.
Construction, accounting, engineering, everything. AI will eventually have far fewer limits than humans.
We're moving into an age where all jobs will become obsolete.
Capitalism can not cope with that. Changes will have to be made, or collapse becomes inevitable.
You an I probably have enough time, but our children will have to confront that reality.
The trend has been clear for a while that the future won't be kind to unskilled labor. With globalization these workers already competeting with hundreds of millions of impoverished workers in the third world, and now domestic service sector jobs are no longer safe.
There are always vague calls about for how education needs to adapt and teach skills for the 21st century, but never real solutions: do we really expect those who were working in McDonalds to pick up differential calculus and become engineers instead? We will reach a point when machines are capable of doing some jobs that were always safe (e.g. truck driver, cashier) better than the workers doing the job, and at that point there is likely to be a cascade of displaced workers without obvious an job transition path. I don't know what the answer is to this, and what is concerning is I've never heard any plausible ideas from anyone either.