This is a common question in economics.

It’s called technological unemploymemt and it’s a type of structural unemployment.

Economists generally believe that this is temporary. Workers will take new jobs that are now available or learn new skills to do so.

An example is how most of the population were farmers, before the agricultural revolution ans the industrial revolution. Efficiency improvements to agriculture happened, and now there’s like only about 1% of the population in agriculture. Yet, most people are not unemployed.

There was also a time in England when a large part of the population were coal miners. Same story.

Each economic and technological improvement expands the economy, which creates new jobs.

There’s been an argument by some, Ray Kurzweil if I remember correctly, but others as well, that we will eventually reach a point where humans are obsolete. There was a time when we used horses as the main mode of land transportation. Now, this is very marginal, and we use horses for a few other things, but really there’s not that much use for them. Not as much as before. The same might happen to humans. Machines might become better than humans, for everything.

Another problem that might be happening is that the rate of technological change might be too fast for society to adapt, leaving us with an ever larger structural unemployment.

One of the solution that has been suggested is providing a basic income to everyone, so that losing your job isn’t as much of a big problem, and would leave you time to find another job or learn a new skill to do so.

Yes, there have been problems for a long time there, but then Myanmar was apparently on a path to democracy, but then the coup happened, so now there are problems again. It’s the current civil war I’m referring to.

A few years. About 1 more than the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, if I remember correctly

Why was it abolished?

I often fantasize that one day I’d start my company and require that all resumes be submitted without a name on it.

I think the thrill and pleasure was what they were after. The subreddit was just for sharing and encouraging eachother. But yea, really dangerous fantasy to act on.

There was one where women shared stories of them getting raped, because they found this to be arousing. Most of the time, they were intentionally putting themselves in situations where they expected the risks of getting raped to be higher.

Examples:

• Going to the bar showing a lot of skin, flirting, and drinking too much, or pretending to be drunk.
• Going to a man’s home, and pretending to fall asleep, with a skirt.
• Showing off her naked body next to a busy highway.

I think they even had insider jargon.

Can’t find it anymore, maybe it was closed. It’s been a long while I’ve even went on Reddit at all.

What was the first one about?

Judging from the screenshots, it seems to be completely non-sexualized. You could hardly get aroused by looking at the woman’s body there.

I started seeing them in my neighborhood. What’s going on?

What I would change in my case:

• Engage with people, even if it’s awkward or you have something more fun and that takes less effort right now
• Get a basic understanding of personal finance (read a book or two)
• Don’t be content with the bare minimum. You’ll spend a lot of time working. Try to get as much as possible for yourself for every hour working.

But I think each person’s realities will vary a lot. For example, regarding the first bullet point, maybe you’re extraverted and already a social butterfly, in which case the advice doesn’t apply.

Depends what.

Customer-facing work: you can stay open longer.

Office work: yeah, since productivity plummets, I don’t think it helps much, if at all.

Just heard that song (and band) for the first time, and it’s great!

If you get a new customer, you may get one for several years without adding any new effort.

Wow, that’s wild.

Are you saying you’ve seen stalls that did not have walls or doors?

Interesting.

Here in Québec, most towns and villages either have a native name, or saint’s name.

Doesn’t that encourage urban sprawl?

Once, as a teenager, I switched channels on the TV, and there was a movie. A caption appeared on screen: “Rhode Island”.

“Nice!” I thought. “I always like movies set in cultures that are very foreign to mine.”

As the movie went on, I was increasingly confused, as those Greeks, or Turks, seemed very similar to US Americans, and the setting appeared to be the USA. (It was dubbed in French, so I couldn’t tell from the language)

I soon figured that it must be a location in the USA named after an Old World location.

You should definitely color Lebanon.