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by collyw 3883 days ago
Thats a very simplistic view and you seem very sure of it. (Plus in the there are a lot more crappy McJob's, so your point about the remianing jobs being highly paid doesn't really seem true).

We haven't seen flying cars, and there is no expectation for them in the future despite what we all expected years ago.

Have read of David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules". As he correctly points out there is a hell of a lot more beurecracy and form filling for almost everything these days. That's a large part of where the extra work comes from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Utopia_of_Rules

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Did you even look at the link I posted? Those articles are both talking about his other book, not the one I was referring to.
So what: "falso in uno falso in omnibus" is a motto worth thinking about. If someone writes absolute hogwash in one book, how can you expect that anything he writes after that will have any trustworthiness?
How about not guessing and reading the statistics:

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515926/how-tec...

The article is hardly conclusive evidence. It even says so for the last three paragraphs.