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# World Without Work

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Machines, Not Human Beings Will Become the Default Choice to Perform Most Activities
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2020*

Daniel Susskind reminds his readers that automation either replaces or complements human beings.  In other words, automation not only affects the amount of available work, but also the nature of that work.  The ongoing impact of increasing automation on both the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in advanced economies since the first industrial revolution can give us a glimpse of what will be in store for the service sector.Both agriculture and manufacturing now employ far less workers than they once did.  Most of the resulting ‘labor surplus’ has gradually migrated first from agriculture to manufacturing and subsequently from manufacturing to the sector of services.  Furthermore, what the remaining workers employed in these two fast-evolving sectors do is increasingly different from what their predecessors did.  In addition, these workers continuously have to upgrade their skills to remain employed in both sectors.The service sector that now employs most people in advanced economies will gradually share a fate similar to the one that is applicable to the agriculture and manufacturing sectors under the pressure of further automation.  Mr. Susskind repeatedly stresses that too many people hold a simplistic view of both automation and frictional, structural technological unemployment: Machines cannot be taught to perform “non-routine” tasks, because people struggle to explain how they perform them.  The author clearly demonstrates that machines process information and data differently and more efficiently than most human beings do.  None of these machines have gained an ‘artificial general intelligence’.  These machines display an ‘artificial narrow intelligence.’Here follow a few examples for illustration purposes:1) DeepMind has created a program that can diagnose over fifty eye diseases with an error rate of only 5.5%.  It performs as well as the best clinical experts out there.2) JP Morgan has developed a system that reviews commercial loan agreements, resulting in a saving of about 360,000 hours of human lawyers’ time.3) IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at playing chess.Mr. Susskind invites human beings to start thinking about the residual tasks that will remain for them:1) Tasks that prove impossible to automate.2) Tasks that are possible but unprofitable to automate.3) Tasks that are both possible and profitable to automate but remain restricted to human beings due to regulatory or cultural barriers that societies build around them.This gradual substitution will oblige governments in advanced economies to address three key, related issues: Inequality, power, and purpose.  What will these technologically unemployed people do in a winner-take-all environment that further increases income / wealth inequality?  How will these (former or would be) workers be compensated if traditional jobs are out of reach for them?  What will the purpose of the welfare state be in a world where machines take over many tasks that were previously deemed out of reach for automation?  Will unscrupulous populists mobilize this new ‘proletariat’ for their own nefarious purposes either domestically and/or across borders?The diminishing employment rate among lower-qualified men say in the U.S. reflects a multi-dimensional mismatch: 1) Skills, 2) identity, and 3) place.  Up-skilling has clearly failed to address this mismatch, despite the claims of too many out-of-touch policymakers.  The lack of gainful employment among these men makes them both unproductive and potentially dangerous to the stability of the society at large.In a world with less paid work, taxation of workers, capital, and big businesses will be a critical mechanism in addressing to some extent the increasing income / wealth inequality.  A conditional basic income (CBI) will be the only palatable solution to the haves.  The universal basic income (UBI) smells too much of a free lunch for moochers.  The CBI will allow the ‘non-traditional’ workers to find new meaning and purpose in life, while providing more stability and security to the taxed ‘traditional’ workers, capital, and big businesses.  Sustenance and entertainment provided by government to appease public discontent has not lost its potency since Antiquity.In summary, nothing in life can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and the relentless process of machine-driven task encroachment.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It was excited to read about our possible future.
  

*by R***Z on Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2023*

The author gave us a practical insight of a possible future without significant political partiality. Numerous points are left unclear but this book gives you a general vision of what lies ahead.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    And interesting book with a visionary look into the future
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2022*

In times where there are lmany books, articles, etc. related to Digital Transformation this book fills a gap in the sense that once we reach new levels of automation what will happen to the current structure of our society, the author explains that it requires to change too.So, according to the author, in the future, due to technological changes, there will be not enough work for everyone.Susskind also argues that we need to find a way to deal with the each time more growing political power of tech companies not only their economic power.And in a future with less work and more free time, the nature of work will also change, and people will need to find a new meaning in life.We are accustomed until now, says the author, to technology replacing human work or complementing human work, in the future technology will be replacing human work rather than complementing it.The author concludes that in the future, technology will raise the problems of inequality, political power, and life purpose.The author states that a new Big State must deal with the distribution issue to address inequality, and that we will require an oversight authority to deal with the political power of tech companies, and we also need to create new institutions to support people jobless, with less job and with more free time.The author exemplifies the above with new emerging capabilities in technology that are nothing like human intelligence in any manner, so technology will find new ways to do our jobs.And interesting book with a visionary look into the future.Enjoy it!

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