A point about technology making "new" jobs.
A lot of people seem to think this means MORE jobs...it doesn't. It means NEW, jobs that didn't exist before, but not MORE. In fact, that is the express purpose of developing technology, to reduce the amount of effort (work) it takes to do things.
Oh, but why are there more jobs now then there used to be? Well, there are more people. And on average, we have way more stuff then we ever used to have. Demand has been driven by population growth and increased access to goods and services. And technology helps us try to meet that demand by making our work way more efficient.
Even technology like the telephone that we all take for granted eliminates work. We can communicate with people on the other side of the planet WITHOUT a courier carrying message the entire way, taking months of time and requiring food, lodging, and supplies. We can send billions of messages around the world every day, WITHOUT the billions of couriers and their support networks that would have been required to do it. Instead, a handful of tech professionals with some satellites and dish receivers can facilitate all of it.
Don't get me wrong, technology is great! I'm just saying, it makes NEW jobs, not MORE jobs. Nobody would use it if it multiplied the amount of work it takes to do something.
Oh, but why are there more jobs now then there used to be? Well, there are more people. And on average, we have way more stuff then we ever used to have. Demand has been driven by population growth and increased access to goods and services. And technology helps us try to meet that demand by making our work way more efficient.
Even technology like the telephone that we all take for granted eliminates work. We can communicate with people on the other side of the planet WITHOUT a courier carrying message the entire way, taking months of time and requiring food, lodging, and supplies. We can send billions of messages around the world every day, WITHOUT the billions of couriers and their support networks that would have been required to do it. Instead, a handful of tech professionals with some satellites and dish receivers can facilitate all of it.
Don't get me wrong, technology is great! I'm just saying, it makes NEW jobs, not MORE jobs. Nobody would use it if it multiplied the amount of work it takes to do something.
