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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6236626" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>One of the things that bugs me about the fast food worker stats is I've heard economists refer to it as a "starter job". Implying a new worker (i.e. a teenager) gets the job, learns some responsibility, then moves on to a higher paying job.</p><p></p><p>That's nice in theory, or in a well running economy with upward mobility slots for everybody.</p><p></p><p>It just doesn't seem like it's actually happening that way when "older" people are sitting in fast food jobs just to get by.</p><p></p><p>I don't think these people are retards who can't get a better job (even though I know there are better jobs out there in some places). The situation is more complicated than that.</p><p></p><p>So I guess, we gotta wonder, what do we do when the robots are able to take these (and more) jobs?</p><p></p><p>At some point, we're going to have more people who need jobs than actual jobs to perform, regardless of any belief that there are jobs out there. At some point, there could be 1,000 jobs total as robot overseers. Everybody else is unemployed.</p><p></p><p>Are we prepared for a mindshift that being unemployed is OK?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6236626, member: 8835"] One of the things that bugs me about the fast food worker stats is I've heard economists refer to it as a "starter job". Implying a new worker (i.e. a teenager) gets the job, learns some responsibility, then moves on to a higher paying job. That's nice in theory, or in a well running economy with upward mobility slots for everybody. It just doesn't seem like it's actually happening that way when "older" people are sitting in fast food jobs just to get by. I don't think these people are retards who can't get a better job (even though I know there are better jobs out there in some places). The situation is more complicated than that. So I guess, we gotta wonder, what do we do when the robots are able to take these (and more) jobs? At some point, we're going to have more people who need jobs than actual jobs to perform, regardless of any belief that there are jobs out there. At some point, there could be 1,000 jobs total as robot overseers. Everybody else is unemployed. Are we prepared for a mindshift that being unemployed is OK? [/QUOTE]
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