A shift for new work

Tuesday 27.10.2026

I had a thought. Since the fast technological progress is making more and more of the old traditional jobs obsolete, we should come up with new sustainable and easily trained work. Let’s say that a cashier loses his job to an automatic self-service checkout machine. A same rank compensatory job would be a sorter at a recycling station.

The main point here is that we have two major problems tormenting society around the world. Uncontrolled technological growth and nature disasters. But those problems can be flipped into each other's solutions. Ergo the job deficit created by the technology boom should be filled with paid environmental work. Who will pay for all of this? Easy. The ones causing it. Technology giants for an example.

What is in the way of this kind of shift? Corruption in government leadership and the fear of change. Obviously the shareholders of these tech companies would oppose and if the state owns stock, they’d oppose. If we are rooting for a society that is equal and free, the government and big tech companies shouldn’t be in bed together. Otherwise they form a dangerous mutant that controls the common people's money and attention. Giving too much power to a single organization never ends well. So if money is the problem, get it from the data lords. This kind of change is a great opportunity for the government to show that they are not in the pocket of a tech company and gain some trust from the common folk.

Common folk don't have money so they wouldn’t have a problem with this. But if the folk don't have money the government has a problem. No taxes and angry folk. So this change is a win-win deal for all. Except for the tech companies, but do we really need all this data? If we do, the money from the data should be divided. And also the data should be free for all. With this shift that I described this division could be possible

What can the common folk do about this? Well, of course it starts with changing some legislation. Tax the digital elite and create new paid environmental work. Citizens’ initiative. Study what environmental work is and what it could be. This might sound like some leftist ranting, but this concerns and helps everybody, no matter your political background. Remember soon you might not have a job. If you’d like one, get along with this shift and don’t just sit and wait for unemployment and unnecessary harm for our planet.

Best regards, Kasper Lake