The future of Full Employment - a paper by Oxford Univ.

[Bill]

Forwarded:

From a trade unionist friend:

 

Please find attached a paper published in late 2013 by Oxford University Engineering Sciences Department and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology. 

It is very sobering, if not downright scary, in its conclusions after surveying the future of work and employment as it relates to the present and future implementation of 

computer technology and the application of robots in the most common and ordinary of workplaces.

In brief, the Engineering Department (not the soft social lefties) of the university, concludes that fully 47% of all most common jobs in the United States

 will probably disappear in the near future.

 

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[Andrew Gunderman]

Do you actually agree with the Oxford Martin treatise in view of the fact that the Engineering Department and not the soft, social types produced the report? As I have argued before, it may be important to analyze the rest of the economy before jumping to conclusions such as, the Engineering Dept. as in their "black box" version of a future with 47% job loss. If for example, 47% of Americans don't pay income tax, and 47% of them loose their jobs, then it has no effect on government revenue (since income tax is taken out of wage earnings, the government can't lose what it hadn't been receiving in the first place.)
 

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Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 16:16:19 -0700
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