So how many people need to have their shitty jobs taken away by automation for you to be impressed?
I hope you start caring about other people way before your job as a developer ever gets automated.
I hope you start caring about other people way before your job as a developer ever gets automated.
Pretty much almost all (time) gains from automation get immediately filled with non-automated tasks instead of giving you endless free time.
Otherwise at this point in time in history no one would need to work. But we keep coming up with more stuff to do and fill up our time.
The "think of the employees" argument only works when there isn't an employee-friendly market.
Actually it is. People need to be occupied/busy. It's such a big need that keeping meaningless jobs around is also a huge political tool used for thousands of years (there was an article that made the front page of HN a few days ago exactly about this topic, pretty fascinating). I would agree it might not be the best way of caring about people though.
In any case, my comment referred to the sentiment of the previous poster's comment, which seems to be similar to yours...
> With unemployment numbers so slow, finding another menial job shouldn't be that difficult.
These people are just a statistic to you and you think because "the numbers add up", they'll be fine.
> The "think of the employees" argument only works when there isn't an employee-friendly market.
It's hardly an employee-friendly market when thousands of people with a full time job can't afford housing because their jobs don't pay enough, but they also can't afford to loose their jobs. Seems more like slavery than a job market.