{"id":111085,"date":"2020-08-10T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-global-work-crisis-automation-the-case-against-jobs-and-what-to-do-about-it"},"modified":"2020-08-10T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:41:11","slug":"the-global-work-crisis-automation-the-case-against-jobs-and-what-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-global-work-crisis-automation-the-case-against-jobs-and-what-to-do-about-it","title":{"rendered":"The Global Work Crisis: Automation, the Case Against Jobs, and What to Do About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-global-work-crisis-automation-the-case-against-jobs-and-what-to-do-about-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the end, we look back at our careers and reflect on what we\u2019ve achieved. It may have been the hundreds of human interactions we\u2019ve had; the thousands of emails read and replied to; the millions of minutes of physical labor\u2014all to keep the global <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_economy\">economy<\/a> ticking along.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/chairman\/212045\/world-broken-workplace.aspx\">Gallup\u2019s World Poll<\/a>, only 15 percent of people worldwide are actually engaged with their jobs. The current state of \u201cwork\u201d is not working for most people. In fact, it seems we as a species are trapped by a global work crisis, which condemns people to cast away their time just to get by in their day-to-day lives.<\/p>\n<p>Technologies like artificial intelligence and automation may help relieve the work burdens of millions of people\u2014but to benefit from their impact, we need to start changing our social structures and the way we think about work now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, we look back at our careers and reflect on what we\u2019ve achieved. It may have been the hundreds of human interactions we\u2019ve had; the thousands of emails read and replied to; the millions of minutes of physical labor\u2014all to keep the global economy ticking along. According to Gallup\u2019s World Poll, only 15 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}