Meaning of disemployment | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).

uncountable

Examples

“this glut of leisure and disemployment”

“So an AI-enabled future may have all sorts of economic dislocations — not just unemployment, but disemployment — the obsolescence of a lot of professions. But the marginal cost of goods and services will essentially go to zero, providing enough wealth that societies can provide a universal basic income for all. What you’re predicting makes me think of a 1930 piece by John Maynard Keynes called “The economic possibilities of our grandchildren.””

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