The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers

They promise a technological revolution and say AI will do tons of different jobs and help us make tons of progress — but one role they never talk about automating away is “CEO.” The same goes for “venture capitalist,” because as egg-headed tech oligarch Marc Andreessen said, it involves a lot of “psychological analysis” unlike professions such as ... See more

"We could change it now. Robots are doing all the work. Human beings -- all human beings -- could now be on perpetual vacation. That's what bugs me. If society had been designed for it somehow, we could all be on vacation instead of on welfare. Everyone on the planet could be living in luxury. Instead, they are planning to kill us off. Did you

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we imagined automation would free us first. robots would take the boring jobs, assembly lines, delivery routes, deep sea welding, & humans would finally get to explore, create, feel.

but here we are.

people still stock shelves, drive trucks, clean bathrooms.

but the machines are now writing poems. they’re making music. they’re painting. they’re whispe... See more

The most frequent rejoinder to all of this is that while the jobs of today may well disappear, others will emerge in their place. After all, that is what has always happened in the past. And yet that isn’t quite true. Eighty per cent of today’s professions existed a century ago, with the number of people employed in the 20 per cent of new occupatio

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