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Originally Posted by kane
Some of it too is simply the way our system is built. Capitalism is a pyramid. The higher you move up and the more you make the fewer of those opportunities there are. In order for the system to work you need worker bees. Walmart doesn't exist without all of their employees. The same can be said for any manufacturing company or any company that provides a product or service and employs many people to help deliver that product or service. The odds are these people are not going to make a lot of money, but they are needed to make that company run. We can't glorify the success of a business and then flog those who work for it because they don't pay enough into the system or ask for some extra help.
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Bank Teller = ATM
Check out clerk = automated 'self-checkout' system
Driver = Autonomous Vehicle Software
Street Light / Exterior Electrician = Bulbs that now last 10+ years
Librarian = Google
Bookkeeper Accountant = Quickbooks and TurboTax
Simple legal instruments = LegalZoom
The amount of people needed to manage things has shrank quickly. It will only shrink more and faster as we move forward.
That is the nature of technology, it accelerates itself.
Anything repetitive can be automated.
90% of 'work' for most people comes down to repetitive tasks.
Walmart will exist with a skeleton crew soon.
A few people who fix the things that replaced all the other employees.
It is happening already all around us.