What will future jobs look like? | Andrew McAfee

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1. I love it - we're all going to have more leisure time. That was predicted when I was 12. I'm 60 now. Yeah, we have more leisure, if you call being unable to find a job that pays more than minimum wage leisure. I love it!
2. This is brilliant- We need musicians and street artists to start using these ideas in their art!
3. Great talk with many interesting points. A word about BUI (Basic Universal Income).
   
   First, I support the concept. I add that it's never been a question in the US at least of helping the needy. its always been a question of deserving vs. undeserving needy. Good White folks are deserving of help. Bad brown folks are undeserving. Thats why the Republicans have been so effective in reducing social safety nets by using dog-whistle politics and drawing the connection of social assistance with 'undeserving' Black and Brown people.
   
   Lets call BUI what it is. Welfare. When I was growing up, we used to call it Food Stamps and public assistance. You support government housing to circumvent rising housing prices in large urban areas - the Projects. I am tired of word smithing old concepts that were used to demonize people of color to appease White people - who in the not too distant future will be receiving these benefits.
   
   Also, the rising number of 'Bills' that are in prison - not a problem! Just build a school to prison pipeline like society has done in the Black community. Use these Bills as grist for the for-profit prison system that has been so devastating for communities of color in the US. Problem resolved.
   
   I have limited empathy for the Bills and Teds that stood on the necks by deliberately limiting the opportunities of women and people of color to build their secure lifestyles. Maybe now that many of the issues that have long impacted communities of color are now impacting white communities, we will see some change. I'm amused at the thought that Bill in on the verge of becoming the 21st century version of Regan's 'Welfare Queen'.
4. I still don't know "what will future jobs look like".
5. Why would you even design such A.I. that has it's own conscience?
6. Let's ask computers to solve the problem of them replacing our jobs.
7. There's nothing more stupid than letting technology do everything people do. Aside from the fact that people will have no money to buy anything or pay our bills and we'll have too much time on our hands which for most people is a bad thing.
8. Sad to say that it's now 2016 and Bill is still on the rise with little help in sight. Good luck everyone.
9. Dey terk er jerbs!!!
10. Milton Friedman called minimum wages a form of discrimination against the low-skilled; and it is why he saw topping up the incomes of the working poor with public subsidies as a far more sensible means of alleviating poverty.
11. I don't think there is abundance. I'd say there'd be abundance if we didn't force production to grow constantly. We have surplusses rather than abundances.
12. This new world seems very good, but I am too much of a cynical basterd to believe humanity will handle this revolution properly.
13. Barjavel's 'Ashes, Ashes' (1943)
14. yes your wasteful lifestyles created by abundance are causing problems that threaten our very existence. so typical of an arrogant capitalist to entirely ignore the developing world while talking about the "worlds" future.
15. I'm a Carpenter building houses in Canada. You can call me Bill.
16. Mr. McAfee not only failed to answer the question but also seems to not have done any actual further reading on economics. He has forgotten that the economy is driven by supply and demand - the latter of which will be decreasing as automation progresses. I realise that the graphs which he presented prove me wrong, however you have to remember that we are facing a new age and relying on data from a period of transition will lead you to nowhere . Therefore, the idea that our current economic playbook will be enough, is wrong. The concept of a guaranteed minimal income is far from perfection aswell. It would weigh down national economies and, first of all, defy logic. Take a look at Sweden. Social benefits in that country have already done much harm to the economy. Now imagine the situation where 80% of people are unemployed. Because that is what you will have to face. Not only that, but also major income disparities. The west might be entering a new Gilded Age but in a slightly harsher version. Obviously, the only solution to this is education. A different kind of it, driven not by teachers, but by the students themselves. However, I don't really see that happening since the majority of young people are not intelligent enough to understand that the BASIC school curriculum prepares them for the soon to be extinct, white collar jobs. Or in other words - failure.
17. It's interesting that he thinks the "Ted" type won't be replaced by automation also. When bots become smart enough they will definitely go too. Also the title isn't suited for the video, doesn't mention any future jobs that won't be replaced.
18. 14:25 How can you have a better wage in the somewhat near future for people who are also being replaced by AI?
    
    I know some people wont like this but... Everyone should get a check in the mail for a life time. Just for being alive during an amazing era. Where there is no more work!☺
19. Even though we are able to make extremely sophisticated machines, it can never be as good as human in terms of decision making. When situation is extremely difficult and matter extremely complex, I doubt if machines will be able to make a wise decision. I am talking about wisdom and not intelligence. If we delegate all our works to machines, it will be catastrophic. The machines will not take decisions based on morality, empathy and kindness. It is for the world to choose what it wants - a happy peaceful society which values family and social ties or a society filled with funky machines which does not have feelings.
20. 4:34 story, priceless.