600m jobs are needed but technology is the enemy

On September 9, the World Bank said 600m jobs needed to be created during the next decade and a half. This is to accommodate expected world population increase.

No provision is made for the number of jobs that will be eliminated by the genius of technological automation, although it consigns millions of tasks that required human input to the archives of history.

This pronouncement is the most recent indication of the calamitous unemployment the world faces, unless there is re-evaluation of the relationship between work and employment. The crazy pretense that technology does not eliminate jobs must be debated.