@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
This is interesting.
https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work
I find that article very elitist and snobbish. They totally demean blue collar workers. There is an abundance of well-paying jobs in the trades. Our schools in the USA don't promote trade jobs enough they want everyone to go to a four-year college. My Dad, with only a high school education, started cleaning businesses and eventually turned it into a business where he made over $100,000 a year during the 1980s. He eventually employed other people too. So that "bullshit" job, as one of the people mentioned in that article would say, provided very nicely for my family.
I also see their analysis of the loss of jobs from automation, very one dimensional. To think that the economy won't come up with a solution for it is a little far fetch. While there might be a lot of bullshit jobs in the white-collar world, it is much harder to have a bullshit job where you are actually building/doing something. Also, people are a great resource.
I am not saying there won't be a shift in the economy and we won't see some jobs disappear. This has happened before. There are a lot fewer farriers than there were in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They are still around just a lot less of them because of the automobile. But with the automobile came the need for gas stations, mechanics, car salesmen, etc which people eventually transferred into.
