Jobs

I read recently that the unemployment rate went up some more. Which led me to an interesting thought experiment. As technology improves, there are less and less people doing labor, service, and retail jobs as well.

For example, Red Box are these are closing down Blockbusters and Hollywood Videos everywhere. All the people previously employed at Blockbusters and Hollywood Videos are replaced by Red Boxes. AMT machines decreasing the need for tellers, and U-Scans taking jobs of baggers and cashiers.

I mean if look at the long run implications of these modern technology advancements in the future we'll see less and less people with jobs. These people will need to find other methods of making money from the weathly few or make money from the people who are making money from the weathly few. :)

It seems like more and more people are headed to entertainment industry. Do something entertaining and make money from everyone. Since technology advances, machines are doing the work for everyone. People have more and more time do to leisurely activities rather than working. So they need some sort of entertainment to take up their time.

Imagine if we reach the end of our future (which is like infinity where we'll never reach), people wouldn't need to do anything because theres some sort of machine or technology that does whatever we use to do. Cooking, washing, work, accounting, or any task you consider as chore or annoying. Everyone will just have 24 hours of free time, because there is jobs to do. The only thing people can do for each other entertain. I don't know how money would work by then, we probably wouldn't even use money it would be more of a social communist-like world and people just give points for people who are cool, entertaining, or awesome.

But we'll never reach that perfect world where there is no work, so I predict in the future if you can't do entertainment, you'll be the few that will be working. In a world of 90% entertainers and 10% workers. I'm sure you can feel that we're already headed that way. You fake at work to get people's approval and fake at a job interview, so you can get the job. Its all part of the job of being an entertainer.