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'''[https://g.co/kgs/cwgGvE ''A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond'']''' by [[Daniel Susskind]] (2020) | '''[https://g.co/kgs/cwgGvE ''A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond'']''' by [[Daniel Susskind]] (2020) | ||
Dr. Susskind, scion of the storied futurology dynasty, will doubtless find enough [[general counsel]] who are anxious to seem at the technological vanguard — and interested mugs like me, who are suckers for sci-fi alternative histories — at least to recoup his advance, but {{br|A World Without Work}} will not signpost much less dent the immutable trajectory of modern employment, misunderstanding as it does how humans, organisations or economies work, while ignoring — neigh, ''contradicting'' — the whole history of technology, from the plough. An excellent counterpoint, though equally flawed in other ways, is the late David | Dr. Susskind, scion of the storied futurology dynasty, will doubtless find enough [[general counsel]] who are anxious to seem at the technological vanguard — and interested mugs like me, who are suckers for sci-fi alternative histories — at least to recoup his advance, but {{br|A World Without Work}} will not signpost much less dent the immutable trajectory of modern employment, misunderstanding as it does how humans, organisations or economies work, while ignoring — neigh, ''contradicting'' — the whole history of technology, from the plough. An excellent counterpoint, though equally flawed in other ways, is the late {{author|David Graeber}}’s highly provocative {{Br|Bullshit Jobs: A Theory}}, which has a far more realistic, if no less glum, prognosis: soul-destroying jobs aren’t going away: they are only going to be more and more of them. This feels more plausible to me. | ||
Technology has ''never'' destroyed overall labour, and Susskind gives no good grounds for believing it will suddenly start now. | Technology has ''never'' destroyed overall labour, and Susskind gives no good grounds for believing it will suddenly start now. | ||
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{{author|David Graeber}}’s {{Br|Bullshit Jobs: A Theory}} | |||
*[[Technological unemployment]] | *[[Technological unemployment]] | ||
*[[Coronavirus]] | *[[Coronavirus]] | ||