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> And they have to work somewhere. If there are no jobs these new grads can "flip burgers" or something, but more likely they'll find someone willing to hire them to crank out code.

If there are no jobs, then how? The market doesn't have to use up the entire supply of skilled workers. It's not going to create jobs just to give people jobs.



There’s 2 ways this could go:

1) create enough of a safety net or give people enough cash that they can start businesses taking advantage of the increased productivity of ai

2) austerity: let them get fired from jobs in failing industries with no safety net, they will not have the opportunity to create businesses, and they will work in crappy tedious jobs a robot or ai could easily do, but because companies can afford cheap humans and they don’t have capital for robots, they will hire people desperate to do anything to keep their family from homelessness.

Which one do you think we’re going to do?


3) Reinstitute the military draft for the upcoming war so that the unemployed now have a purpose in life


Apparently, according to the government, that's officially planned in my country.


The draft will 100% never be reimplemented in the US. The all volunteer military has been far too successful.


The army and particularly the navy are looking pretty desperate for recruits right now.


An inevitable side effect of #2




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