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Originally Posted by freebeard
Today, in episode 621, Scott Adams speculates that in the society that is evolving, 1/3 to 2/3rds of adult lack the ability to function in society. And gives the reasons. 200 years ago someone with an IQ 0f 80 and an addictive personality could function. Nor so much today, right?
The climate isn't degrading as fast as society's ability to function in it.
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I'm very curious to see that episode. As Peterson often points out, technology has made everything much more complex, and so work has become more complex, meaning even the lower skill level jobs require increasing intelligence (problem solving ability), and the lowest skill jobs (mostly repeated physical actions) get eliminated by machines/automation.
Peterson points out that the US military will not accept roughly the lower 10% of the population based on cognitive testing, and that if the military won't accept them, what chance do those people have in the private workplace?
So technology is increasingly eliminating jobs, and disproportionately those jobs towards the lower end of the skill/pay spectrum. That's despite the intrinsic motivation to automate the higher skill/pay jobs.
I tend to believe social structure places humanity in more risk than climate at the moment, but they both influence each other.