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user-inactivated · 3423 days ago · link · · parent · post: What do you think of a guaranteed Minimum Income?
Really a lot of white collar jobs are already automated. The example you use with Accounting is mostly capable of being run by much fewer people than in the past. As an example, many businesses used to keep a payroll department as a separate functional department within accounting. Now, if a businesses even handles their own payroll instead of outsourcing it to ADP or a similar company, they have many fewer people doing it. And ADP is able to handle with their small staff what could only be handled by a dozen people for a single company before. So you could argue that we're already well into the phase of automating white collar jobs as well.