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timtyler comments on What jobs are safe in an automated future? - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: PuyaSharif 11 January 2012 08:48PM

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Comment author: timtyler 11 January 2012 11:41:39PM 5 points [-]

What jobs will be the last ones to go, and why?

Probably management - because they are in charge of hiring and firing everyone else.

Comment author: cousin_it 11 January 2012 11:55:54PM *  6 points [-]

In Manna, some managerial jobs are the first to be made obsolete.

Comment author: timtyler 12 January 2012 01:37:22AM 6 points [-]

The early chapters of Manna are good - but it's still fiction.

We already know what the first things to be automated are, and management doesn't seem to be too badly hit.