We live in a world characterized by very rapid changes and all kinds of uncertainties, risks and challenges. Among all these things, we will point out only a few. We know that AI is an unstoppable phenomenon, advancing rapidly and having multiple impacts.
In general, there is a coincidence that it provides closely related services and generates new jobs, but at the same time it destroys more jobs than it creates. This ranges from programmers to unskilled and skilled repetitive roles in traditional occupations.
On the other side. In our country, new jobs are created in sectors such as energy (especially in Vaca Muerta) and mining, as well as agribusiness and some services, but not in areas with high population density such as the various suburbs of our country.
So, the question is whether or not we can do something about it, both for the sake of the current unemployed and for the sake of new generations who cannot imagine having a future in this society and this economy.
There is one hope: the development of the care economy. Caring for people who are vulnerable because of their age (very early or very advanced), health or disability and who require personal and emotional care. Taking care of property, both real estate and furniture (equipment and transportation).
Maintenance, restoration, expansion, and construction require many skilled trades that are currently in short supply. Caring for nature that ranges from contributing to the regeneration of rural and urban lands and plants, through recycling and the green economy, to caring for pets.
Without forgetting the capabilities that must be created to confront increasingly extreme phenomena due to climate change, such as displacement due to long-term drought, dangerous floods and rising sea levels.
If we agree with this approach, this will lead to the implementation of an educational and training policy that ranges from specialized secondary schools and technical schools, through higher education institutes and short courses in various universities. This would allow people of any age who need to work to be eligible, as well as – in particular – young people who see there is a future for them.
In the current organizational scheme of the national executive, this responsibility falls on the Ministry of Human Capital, which should coordinate corresponding measures with the various regional jurisdictions (and with their municipalities).
This should be operationally complemented by a federal agency that detects and articulates the various needs through training, employment, employment and social assistance that depend on this organisation.
We must emerge to meet the career challenges of artificial intelligence, in addition to a dual scheme with a thriving sector that generates a lot of foreign exchange but little employment, and another where economic activity is not booming, and there are huge sectors of the urban population who barely survive in the informal sector and see their children with no future, as well as being threatened by the temptations of crime and drug trafficking.
Stable macroeconomics must be accompanied by the policy and instruments of a care economy and harmonious development of the territory that involves us all, implemented through re-engineering a smarter state at its various levels.
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