This assumes sufficient jobs. We have been below replacement jobs for a long time but we made up the difference with Bullshit Jobs. Now we might even be running out of those.
This assumes sufficient jobs. We have been below replacement jobs for a long time but we made up the difference with Bullshit Jobs. Now we might even be running out of those.
> Bullshit Jobs
I’ve only read the article, not the full book, but I’m not sure I buy the premise.
Maybe we can’t see what the new post-AI society looks like yet, but I tend to believe society progresses as it evolves.
It doesn’t mean it won’t be rocky for many people, and good social safety nets will make this easier, but I generally don’t think there will be some kind of dystopian future where society runs out of work to do for humans.
A lot of current bullshit jobs involve generating text that nobody reads or cares about. LLMs replace these.
Everyone kinda ignores that you can now generate that text in any language at a whim and it will do a far better job than previous translation programs. What a huge improvement in efficiency.
Bullshit jobs have to be inefficient to work or else we have an unemployment crisis.
If the bullshit job is really bullshit by design and is intended to solve unemployment crisis, then LLMs will not threaten them. There will be a new kind bullshit job to plug the new hole in the resource allocation algo.
They're by structural design but no individual employer thinks they're making a bullshit job. It's a bit like how every vendor sets prices but really, the federal reserve does.