If he thinks accountants and the like will be put out of jobs, he's not taking into account the power of unions and luddites.
Here in Uruguay we have a lot of jobs that could be replaced by today's tech, which will probably last for decades due to unions pushing for inefficiency (and they introduce incredible bureaucracy and friction).
For example, to buy and sell a car in my country, you need an "escribano" (closest US equivalent is notary), a specialized lawyer that has to "witness" and certify that you actually own the good being sold, with a staggering amount of paperwork, which is only legal if it's affixed with the proper amount of seals and signatures, and the paperwork itself costs more than an used car in the U.S. :P .
There are lots of incredibly useless paperwork, one of my former teachers was put in charge of the IT department of the Judiciary Branch, and he was thwarted at every corner by unions and obsolete laws, he was unable to automate anythign and ended up resigning.
The real estate agents' experience is also very bad, I've had some that actually removed value, I hope something puts them out of work soon.
Commercial pilots might be a concern, but I worry about truck and bus drivers... those have very powerful unions - see in Argentina where the most powerful lobby is the truck drivers' union led by Hugo Moyano, same here in Uruguay, some truck drivers make the same money as a software developer (at least the same or better than I do).
>Here in Uruguay we have a lot of jobs that could be replaced by today's tech, which will probably last for decades due to unions pushing for inefficiency (and they introduce incredible bureaucracy and friction).
Yeah, same for those people wanting jobs to feed their families...
If you didn't understand the gist of what Jobs said, here it is: new jobs WONT replace the majority of the old automated jobs. People would literally have NO jobs.
Here in Uruguay we have a lot of jobs that could be replaced by today's tech, which will probably last for decades due to unions pushing for inefficiency (and they introduce incredible bureaucracy and friction).
For example, to buy and sell a car in my country, you need an "escribano" (closest US equivalent is notary), a specialized lawyer that has to "witness" and certify that you actually own the good being sold, with a staggering amount of paperwork, which is only legal if it's affixed with the proper amount of seals and signatures, and the paperwork itself costs more than an used car in the U.S. :P .
There are lots of incredibly useless paperwork, one of my former teachers was put in charge of the IT department of the Judiciary Branch, and he was thwarted at every corner by unions and obsolete laws, he was unable to automate anythign and ended up resigning.
The real estate agents' experience is also very bad, I've had some that actually removed value, I hope something puts them out of work soon.
Commercial pilots might be a concern, but I worry about truck and bus drivers... those have very powerful unions - see in Argentina where the most powerful lobby is the truck drivers' union led by Hugo Moyano, same here in Uruguay, some truck drivers make the same money as a software developer (at least the same or better than I do).