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It is if you’re only concerned with whether or not there’s work to do. It’s a serious problem when you consider whether or not people can actually do the work, and how we coordinate that at a large scale.
There will always be work to be done, that’s in the nature of the universe. But how do we motivate people to work, organize their work, etc when jobs will be replaced far faster than they can be created?
You didn’t really engage with anything I brought up in my post, just hand waved it away by saying there will always be work. I agree, but explain to me how we get people to do that work?
The real question here is why aren’t enough new jobs created. The answer: current regulatory and political landscape prevent job creation in all cases except those where the ROI is the highest and there’s enough capital to power through all the associated problems.
Like have you tried actually hiring someone? The amount of headache and liability is massive, only justified in cases you are like 100% sure it’s worth it or when your org can afford to lose a fair amount of money if things go south. Add to that the taxes that can be up to 50% of payroll..
I can easily imagine hiring 2x, 3x the amount of employees, in different circumstances.
If the actual problem is people being not capable to perform the work that’s expected of them, we should welcome ChatGPT with open arms.. A sane and literate man equipped with GPT-4 is "good enough" for so many tasks.
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