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.
Consider what kind of 'meeting new people' you want. Those customers at Arby's aren't going to see you as human, you are a tool that needs to be told loudly and rudely what they expect of you which is usually complete and total subservience.
I worked fast food as a kid and the pay was shit but the people were friendly. Society has changed I'm sure but it was never a bad job aside from the low paycheck.
Society hasn't worsened so much as social media has made the worst of interactions more prominent. No one posts a video of a cordial yet uneventful transaction, that's boring. However almost daily someone posts an interaction that escalates to at least yelling, maybe racism, potentially punching and it goes viral. A silver lining to consider is that this is *so* unusual, that it is worthy of being viral as its not something someone sees everyday in person.
I guess so, but I was a Mickey-D's cashier in the 80's. People looked me in the eye and I told them to have a nice day. Today I imagine they will 90% be looking at their phone through-out the entire transaction. Still 10% won't. And FTR when I was cashiering anybody who asked me for extra mcd monopoly thingies got like 100 of them.
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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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Really?!? As long as I could earn a living wage I would take the tech job even if it payed less.
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Consider what kind of 'meeting new people' you want. Those customers at Arby's aren't going to see you as human, you are a tool that needs to be told loudly and rudely what they expect of you which is usually complete and total subservience.
Be very careful what you wish for.
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Society hasn't worsened so much as social media has made the worst of interactions more prominent. No one posts a video of a cordial yet uneventful transaction, that's boring. However almost daily someone posts an interaction that escalates to at least yelling, maybe racism, potentially punching and it goes viral. A silver lining to consider is that this is *so* unusual, that it is worthy of being viral as its not something someone sees everyday in person.
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