Raising kids well is an important and valuable job, but our societies are not yet productive enough to make it affordable. This may change!
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Automation Ethics: Rejecting Job Displacement Arguments
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It's dehumanizing to think that slavery should not be abolished because otherwise the slaves would not have jobs. It's dehumanizing to force people to drive other people around or operate a manual loom or to submit tax returns if the job can be done by machines.
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Jobs Are Not Finite: Why Automation Creates New Work
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The idea that there is a finite amount of jobs is fundamentally mistaken. There is always work to do.
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Pre-public education era: 98% school enrollment despite poverty
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Fun fact: before public education was introduced in the US in the 1800s, more than 98% of all kids went to school. Believe it or not, but even poor people can afford to education for their children.
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AI Will Make Advertising Obsolete, Threatening Google’s Business
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Brin & Page famously thought that Web search would make advertising obsolete. It didn’t, but AI will, and that will be the end of their company.
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Tech Project Fails Budget Expectations and Delivery Timeline
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Late, over the budget, and probably grossly unprofitable and plagued with scarcity. Who would have thought! https://
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Technological revolutions create jobs by enabling new affordable possibilities
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Every technological revolution created as many jobs as it destroyed, because we find that there is always more work to do. Things that were expensive or impossible become cheap, and we are allowed to work on things we could not afford doing before. In the future, personal
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Employer Denies Legal Paternity Leave Rights to Worker
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Yeah, I am having another uncomfortable flashback. Except in my case it was even worse – I was asking for a few days off for a paternity leave. Which by law according to the jurisdiction they were in they were required to give me. They “conceded” only one day. I left that place a