Second round! Here is a more condensed version that might be appropriate for something like Reddit comments. The idea is that someone will ask the question “What is different this time?” and this will be the answer, with the expectation that it can be expanded in follow-up discussion as needed.
Nowhere Left to Run: When we experienced big automation waves before, there was a need in new and expanding industries for similar skills. For example, people went from farming to manufacturing, and from manufacturing to services. There are no industries like that now.
Everything, All the Time: Modern automation doesn’t just automate a job, it automates an entire skill like apply this pattern or speak a language. This means that when a job goes away, all the work that person could do with the same skillset starts to go away at the same time. It also means that places we used to think were safe, like law and medicine, will be automated.
Faster Kill Faster: A lot of modern automation is software driven, which is very fast to produce and practically free to copy and distribute. This means less time for local economies to adapt, or governments to react, or workers to retrain.
Second round! Here is a more condensed version that might be appropriate for something like Reddit comments. The idea is that someone will ask the question “What is different this time?” and this will be the answer, with the expectation that it can be expanded in follow-up discussion as needed.
Nowhere Left to Run: When we experienced big automation waves before, there was a need in new and expanding industries for similar skills. For example, people went from farming to manufacturing, and from manufacturing to services. There are no industries like that now.
Everything, All the Time: Modern automation doesn’t just automate a job, it automates an entire skill like apply this pattern or speak a language. This means that when a job goes away, all the work that person could do with the same skillset starts to go away at the same time. It also means that places we used to think were safe, like law and medicine, will be automated.
Faster Kill Faster: A lot of modern automation is software driven, which is very fast to produce and practically free to copy and distribute. This means less time for local economies to adapt, or governments to react, or workers to retrain.