All the comments on Nos' post echo my sentiments. I wasn't really able to make it through the post. IDK, this is my fundamental problem with the Doctor Who morality play approach to social issues. Either it gets it right and it's all very obvious and unprovoking of any critical thought and everybody pats themselves on the back for having right opinions and watching a show that also has right opinions, OR something goes wrong and suddenly everybody is yelling and it just makes me very tired and not wanting to deal with fandom at all. (Also, ugh, the episode The Sunmakers that somebody is complaining about in that post is the one I'm on right now in watching Four. Dammit, that was my happy place! Not that it would have been a favorite episode anyway, but I'd have ignored it more readily.)
I am v happy that it worked for you, but the whole 'There are no jobs' thing was... well, presumably only applicable to unskilled labour. I can't see a society not needing, say, lawyers and doctors and artists and engineers and all that jazz. Well, this is exactly the point of Humans Need Not Apply--that the areas we think are impervious to automation are almost certainly automatable, that this is a problem that is gong to face all of us, and it's not just an issue of training people who used to do manual labor up to be able to do more white-collar-style jobs that we will magically find for them . . . somewhere. Not that the episode explicitly suggests that doctors and musicians have been replaced as well, but as soon as they brought in the idea that there are laws saying humans have to be given 10% of even the jobs that are obviously more suited to robots it just tells me that that's exactly the kind of society they're facing. Mind you, even replacing just the jobs that are obviously suited to robots with robots is still a majority of the workforce. We don't have to talk about replacing doctors and lawyers before you throw all of society into crisis.
Possibly I'm just reading across the episode, but it's definitely ideas the episode is invoking.
And it assigned the two most highly educated/intelligent people (Charlie & the Doctor) to Maintenance. I think there is something very wrong with that machine. (I was fully expecting Graham to be whisked off to Strategic Planning or something after the Doctor swapped places, but no.) I think someone pointed out in Nos' post that the system put the Doctor in maintenance so she'd find Charlie. If the Doctor hadn't swapped placed with Graham the episode would have been done in five minutes. Not sure why it put Charlie in maintenance, but in the Doctor's case it's rather clever.
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I wasn't really able to make it through the post. IDK, this is my fundamental problem with the Doctor Who morality play approach to social issues. Either it gets it right and it's all very obvious and unprovoking of any critical thought and everybody pats themselves on the back for having right opinions and watching a show that also has right opinions, OR something goes wrong and suddenly everybody is yelling and it just makes me very tired and not wanting to deal with fandom at all. (Also, ugh, the episode The Sunmakers that somebody is complaining about in that post is the one I'm on right now in watching Four. Dammit, that was my happy place! Not that it would have been a favorite episode anyway, but I'd have ignored it more readily.)
I am v happy that it worked for you, but the whole 'There are no jobs' thing was... well, presumably only applicable to unskilled labour. I can't see a society not needing, say, lawyers and doctors and artists and engineers and all that jazz.
Well, this is exactly the point of Humans Need Not Apply--that the areas we think are impervious to automation are almost certainly automatable, that this is a problem that is gong to face all of us, and it's not just an issue of training people who used to do manual labor up to be able to do more white-collar-style jobs that we will magically find for them . . . somewhere. Not that the episode explicitly suggests that doctors and musicians have been replaced as well, but as soon as they brought in the idea that there are laws saying humans have to be given 10% of even the jobs that are obviously more suited to robots it just tells me that that's exactly the kind of society they're facing. Mind you, even replacing just the jobs that are obviously suited to robots with robots is still a majority of the workforce. We don't have to talk about replacing doctors and lawyers before you throw all of society into crisis.
Possibly I'm just reading across the episode, but it's definitely ideas the episode is invoking.
And it assigned the two most highly educated/intelligent people (Charlie & the Doctor) to Maintenance. I think there is something very wrong with that machine. (I was fully expecting Graham to be whisked off to Strategic Planning or something after the Doctor swapped places, but no.)
I think someone pointed out in Nos' post that the system put the Doctor in maintenance so she'd find Charlie. If the Doctor hadn't swapped placed with Graham the episode would have been done in five minutes. Not sure why it put Charlie in maintenance, but in the Doctor's case it's rather clever.