disemployment

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ employment.

Noun

disemployment (uncountable)

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

   Antonyms: employment, reemployment

   Coordinate terms: misemployment, unemployment

   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

     this glut of leisure and disemployment

   • 2024 January 19, Eric Larsen, “Vinod Khosla — Silicon Valley legend and early investor in OpenAI — on the coming AI revolution in medicine”, in Advisory Board (Lessons from the C-suite)‎^[1]:

     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.”