Campus Press
The demise of jobs

EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT

THIRTY years ago, I first wrote in another newspaper about the likelihood that jobs will soon die, but there will always be work. Jobs were practically invented during the First Industrial Revolution, but there was always work even among the Neanderthals.

Three hundred thousand years ago, the Neanderthals were already working, but they had no jobs. They developed the stone technology called the Levallois technique and made pre-shaped stone cores into scrapers for tanning hides and other tools to sharpen stone-tipped spears to hunt and process animals for food.