On Apr 1, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Annie Lowry, a journalist usually better than this drek, writes: > > >> Yet that does not necessarily mean that half of all journalists — or half of >> all Americans, for that matter — will lose their jobs to the robots, never >> to reclaim them. Economists refer to this fear as the “lump of labor” >> fallacy, the incorrect assumption that there is a finite amount of work to >> be done, and that the more robots do, the less there will be for the rest of >> us. In the past, after all, humans have proved remarkably adept at thinking >> up new things to do when plows, cows, steam trains and dishwashers arrived >> to help free up some of our time. > ========== Time to make oxycontin, Twitter and stand your ground laws; the measurement of ilth is the great challenge of political ecology, if only for the purposes of generating self-negating prophecies. Otherwise, the call for free time will continue to be encumbered by the staggering levels of depoliticization all around us. E. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
