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Something like 20% of jobs are moving stuff around. Drivers, warehouse workers, truckers. What happens with self driving vehicles doing that? (the great depress
by SolarNet 9y ago
Something like 20% of jobs are moving stuff around. Drivers, warehouse workers, truckers. What happens with self driving vehicles doing that? (the great depression was 25% unemployment).
People stopped being farmers and were able to pursue other industries. But there were still farmers, and a whole support economy of new jobs to support the new method of farming. AI is going to be the farmer driving the tractor, the person who repairs the tractor, the system that manufactures new tractor parts, the person that drives it, a large amount of the support designing new tractors (even if there were 100 competing brands of tractors there are a limited number of people required for research and design and maintenance of the automation (not enough to replace 2.1 million farmers, let alone the millions of factory workers, mechanics, and delivery people), and the AI can even do most of that themselves too soon).