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bluefirebrand an hour ago

What do we do when former window repairman can't find other jobs? Just fuck em, right?

The narrative we're seeing around AI and current automation isn't "we're going to automate one category of jobs". If it were then sure, we could be relatively confident that the excess labor from that industry would be absorbed by other segments

But that's not what the future looks like to me. The future to me looks like "we want to automate a large majority of labor"

So what then? If tons of labour is displaced then the Broken Window Fallacy doesn't really apply, because it is based on the assumption that there will always be something for displaced labour to do.

Call it the Excess Labor Corollary. If there's no way to absorb excess labor in other segments, then what.