RE: Job Automation Is Happening
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It was popular a while back to say that coal miners could learn to code. There have also been suggestions that employees can be retrained to do other jobs, such as maintaining the robots that replaced them. I don't think these ideas are entirely wrong, except that the Bell curve distribution tells us that there is a certain segment of the population that simply do not have the capacity to learn programming or automation. I haven't seen any ideas on what to do with these workers other than offer a UBI. COVID has been a merciless catalyst for change.
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Couple that with the fact our history of retraining people is awful. We retrain maybe 10% of the workforce so it is not a very optimistic view on that end.
As for coding, there is already self writing AI out there which means coders are going to likely be in less demand in the future.
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