Ideally, automation can redeploy workers into better and more interesting work, so long as they can get the appropriate technical training, says Johannes Moenius, an economist at the University of Redlands.
Ideally, that's what should happen.
In reality, not everyone can learn the things required for those more interesting jobs. Those people are not working low-hanging fruit jobs because they want to - it's because it's the only jobs they're able to do.
It's still not really "unskilled". If people who have been doing it for a year are in some way better at it than someone doing it for a day (including being faster), then there is a skill involved. Perhaps a simple skill, but a skill nevertheless.
It may be a skill that really can't be turned into an instruction manual. For example, consider how (not) useful a manual on riding a bike would be.
On the contrary. There is a word: "skill" which has a meaning. The prefix "un" means without or opposite of. *I* am not the one bending a definition here. The age of the scam doesn't make it less of a scam.
Also, one insight from Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" is "There is no unskilled work".
Yes, there is. There totally is. If you can start doing an acceptable job with no training whatsoever, it's unskilled work. That doesn't mean that we should treat the people doing the work as less valuable than someone else; often unskilled work is also undesirable work, nobody wants to do it. But it still means you don't need anything worthy of being called a skill.
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Assuming a lot (Score:5, Informative)
Ideally, that's what should happen.
In reality, not everyone can learn the things required for those more interesting jobs. Those people are not working low-hanging fruit jobs because they want to - it's because it's the only jobs they're able to do.
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Being able to do the job, and being able to get the degree required to get past HR, are different things.
Also, one insight from Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" is "There is no unskilled work".
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It's still not really "unskilled". If people who have been doing it for a year are in some way better at it than someone doing it for a day (including being faster), then there is a skill involved. Perhaps a simple skill, but a skill nevertheless.
It may be a skill that really can't be turned into an instruction manual. For example, consider how (not) useful a manual on riding a bike would be.
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On the contrary. There is a word: "skill" which has a meaning. The prefix "un" means without or opposite of. *I* am not the one bending a definition here. The age of the scam doesn't make it less of a scam.
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Also, one insight from Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" is "There is no unskilled work".
Yes, there is. There totally is. If you can start doing an acceptable job with no training whatsoever, it's unskilled work. That doesn't mean that we should treat the people doing the work as less valuable than someone else; often unskilled work is also undesirable work, nobody wants to do it. But it still means you don't need anything worthy of being called a skill.
Everything you need to know to do a decent job in a fast food restaurant is enclosed in a three ring binder usually stored in a breakroom if pr