Won’t work? How will these non-workers pay for things?
They’ll have no choice but to work.
They’ll have no choice but to work.
They'll have no choice...
- visa workers who have no bargaining power.
- younger people who are mobile
- moving offices to other places
There have been a few recent posts about struggling to find jobs... every time it turns out they are only applying to online listings for remote jobs, and have high standards. That's not a situation you're likely to stand out in.
I just don't see how global remote work as the norm is "pro worker" for anyone except those already well established in their career. Besides being more disposable, what happened to complaints about companies not providing job resources or training? Did we give up on that one?
It was necessary because many, many US citizens hit hard by The Great Depression figured out in that time how to live without depending on regular (or any) work.
Tent cities; hunting; scavenging; farming; begging; stealing; mutual aid networks; etc.
It wasn't the best life, but for many it was found to be preferable to the factories or the docks.
To even consider returning to living a life dependent on a wage, Uncle Sam needed to offer them a new deal.
But you knew that.
The expectation that it's going to be business as usual is just as short sighted and archaic with regard going into an office as it is with the idea of work in general.
I hope that by "trickle down to the workers" you aren't talking about technically illiterate workers who are not actively contributing to the automation effort. Unfortunately, they will receive some benefits as well, which is completely undeserved.
Sure, most of us have used copilot or other AI tools and seen some benefit. But there's a point of no return where suddenly those tools are able to do the other things we think only we can.
What happens then?
I'm talking about every single human being who has been brought into this world through no fault of their own and deserves our empathy on that point alone.