This is so defeatist. You may need these roles filled, but you can pay much better for them and give them more respect socially. If you automate them, you can implement massive redistributionary schemes to ensure that benefits people. It’s a lack of political will, not possibility.

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porridgeraisin 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's not much to do with the money. It is just work most people will be unwilling to do.

The number of college graduates who will willingly work in housekeeping or dusty construction sites even for 100K USD a year will be next to zero.

People will not downgrade their quality of life compared to what they grew up with. And you're lying to yourself if you think a construction site is as comfy as the Meta HQ.

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aydyn 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> but you can pay much better

Yes

> for them and give them more respect socially

How? You can't dictate social behavior.

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BriggyDwiggs42 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think any solution to this whole constellation of problems with the economy will have to be extralegal first anyways. Social movements and the like.

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hexmiles 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You can't dictate it, but you can influence it.

Imagine if we teach from primary school student to clean their own classroom and bathroom so that everyone must do at least once every x days/week, it think it would help reconsider how we view this jobs. This is just an example, but I think there are plenty of ways for a government to incentivize desirable behavior (even social).

	▲	aydyn 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You're going to get parents with torches and pitchforks if you ask primary students to clean the school bathrooms....