If we pushed to fully automate everything that possibly can be automated, there wouldn't be much work left. Jobs right now are just busywork.
The news drones on and on about labor shortages, but I've never seen a desperate employer. The trades say there's shortages, but all the trades are flooded with apprentices, and then there's pre-apprentices flooded in behind them. Office jobs have to sort through hundreds of applications for a single opening. Hell, even low wage jobs have huge labor pools ready to work, but the owners still find a way to nitpick. Things are horrifically upside down.
I wonder if an adnauseam approach could help. Instead of the customer relying on the carrier or manually blocking spam numbers, if everyone picked up every spam call, goes through the automated system to reach a person, says "hello?", then mutes the mic and lets the human stick around until they hang up.
Sure, they have robocallers that can hit 50,000 numbers a minute, but what happens when every single number answers and gets routed to the humans?
Was this... made with AI? I thought it was a signature above the last ellipses, but it looks like another word was half-generated, and some letters have the same generative effects around them.
All businesses would fail if they don't evolve from the current structure.
A new ecosystem would arise, and if it's held stable long enough, it would become the new norm.
It's kinda like how news stations report on minimum wages in the US, "if we increase minimum wages, X% of small businesses will fail." I try to single out and avoid businesses that operate that way, because the workers are miserable from the low pay, me as the consumer is miserable from the poor customer service, and the owner is miserable because he isn't taking home 'enough' money, even though the business is net positive cash flow.
Propping up the inefficient practices is holding everything back, if they're pruned then new growth can take hold, and form new standards.
If we pushed to fully automate everything that possibly can be automated, there wouldn't be much work left. Jobs right now are just busywork.
The news drones on and on about labor shortages, but I've never seen a desperate employer. The trades say there's shortages, but all the trades are flooded with apprentices, and then there's pre-apprentices flooded in behind them. Office jobs have to sort through hundreds of applications for a single opening. Hell, even low wage jobs have huge labor pools ready to work, but the owners still find a way to nitpick. Things are horrifically upside down.