What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
Article has many holes in reasoning.<p><i>The measurable trends of the past half-century, and the plausible projections for the next half-century, are just too empirically grounded to dismiss as dismal science or ideological hokum</i><p>As NN Taleb points out exhaustively: social science puts too much faith in their models. &quot;Measurable&quot; trends? How do we even know what to measure, or that it&#x27;s a trend? &quot;Plausible&quot; projections? What is the scientific measure of plausibility?<p><i>there’s not enough work to go around</i><p>There&#x27;s a <i>limitless</i> amount of work - it just doesn&#x27;t pay minimum wage. Every time you lower the minimum wage, it makes a new class of activities profitable.<p><i>you’ve just met an attractive stranger at a party, or you’re online looking for someone, anyone, but you don’t ask: ‘So, what do you do?’</i><p>This ubiquitous question may be asked and answered in the sense of &quot;what are you passionate about&quot; rather than &quot;what is your largest source of income&quot;. It would be great if those co-incide, but that&#x27;s often not the case.