What should be done with the unemployable people? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I started to notice a intense automation and Artificial Intelligence Investments from companies and that made me wonder, what would happen or what should be done with the people who can't be trained for a new job and can't use his current skills to to get a job.

How would he live or what would he do in life? More importantly, what should be done with him to make him useful or at least neutral rather than being a negative on the society?

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[-] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 month ago

Look again at why these people no longer have work available to them.

If advancements in technology mean that a machine can do the job more efficiently than a human, then the value of that labour still exists, we just need to legislate a redistribution of it now that human employment is no longer doing it directly.

Once we update our tax codes to ensure that the wealth of automation is shared equitably, the question then becomes "what do you want to do with your free time?"

this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025

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