50% of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025: Report

[haele]

28. Sigh... Keynes said the same thing. A long time ago.

The problem with the paradigm shift in work is that while businesses and corporations and those people who have positioned themselves to be "in charge" will take advantage of the transformation in technology and business, every other area of life will continue on with status quo until the burden gets to be too much on everyone who isn't making money and living a comfortable, fullfilling life.
Government or "the public sector" isn't doing a damn thing because of idiot-ological gridlock on who's wallet deserves to be bigger and the amount of elected officials who are making policy or handling the government purse strings who don't either believe in governance or have no clue about macro economics.
Social sectors are too busy trying to stuff patching into the huge leaks in the social safety net, and don't have the time or focus to actually sit down and think about what is going to happen when the surplus of workers goes from 10 workers to 1 job to 100 workers to 1 job, or what to do with "the average person" including those who have disabilities or are functional but not "creative" or particularly intelligent.
The new Average is going to have to be "rocket scientist". It's not going to be Joe "The Office Guru" or Jane "the Multi-tasking Customer Rep".

This will only end up well if society can get a grip on values in general. So long as everything is measured or monitized, that 50% loss in occupations is going to coincide with a 50% drop in meaningful "living wage" employement. For everyone who doesn't have the money to invest in kewl new technology or start up a business on their own, or who doesn't have the extreme talent or networking/people skills to get a job at whatever jobs are available.

We need to invest in education. We need to realize that with great wealth comes great responsibility. We need to stop trying to please the Ideological Masters or Gods, or whatever - and start concentrating on and deal with reality. We need to stop being addicted to fear and outrage, and start being courageous and curious. We need to start looking at ways of reducing social stress, which is going to mean we're going to have to accept the other as a brother or sister, no matter how misguided we may think they are.

But that will take a paradgim shift in society - and I'm not seeing that happening, so long as money and power is considered more important than joy, health, justice - and mercy.
As a society, we loves us some psychopathic Strong Men and Big Men. We'd sell our mothers and daughters to a third-world brothel just to be able to lick their boots and pretend we're as Big and Strong as they are.

Haele