<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 August 2012 01:49, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">But just as scary as lack of food and shelter is loss of
social status. Many people get their social positions from their
jobs (or think they do), and that is threatened by this trend even
if there is an endless supply of material security. In fact, if
material security doesn't matter then social status becomes nearly
the only thing. So this suggests that high-status people are going
to react even less well to automation of their jobs than low-status
people. So it might be the creatives who have the worst situation in
the long run: they self-identify with their skills, and automation
threatens their self concepts. <br clear="all"></div></blockquote></div><br>Yes, I fully agree. In fact, this is even more accurate for the kind of "creative" work which is purely artistic, literary, philosophical, etc., where status, sense of personal fulfilment, fame, peer-recognition and other non-monetary rewards play an even larger role than they can for, say, an art director or a trial lawyer.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>