[ExI] most common jobs

[Mark Walker]

This is the usual objection of economists. I side with Chicken Little in
thinking the employment sky will fall: http://jetpress.org/v24/walker.htm.

Dr. Mark Walker
Richard L. Hedden Chair of Advanced Philosophical Studies
Department of Philosophy
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3B
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
USA
http://www.nmsu.edu/~philos/mark-walkers-home-page.html

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 9 February 2015 at 12:52, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> > High levels of automation and unemployment do not seem to be
> >> correlated at all as far as I can tell.
> >
> >
> > But it's only a matter of time till they were, and probably not a great
> deal
> > of time
> >
> >   John K Clark
>
> If you looked at the jobs people did a few centuries ago and consider
> what effect automation has had on them, you might conclude that almost
> everyone today should be unemployed. But that is not in fact what has
> happened.
>
>
> --
> Stathis Papaioannou
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