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The truck drivers who lose their jobs will get new ones. Same story has been told for generations and it is never true. So-called AI won’t eliminate the need fo
by seibelj 7y ago
The truck drivers who lose their jobs will get new ones. Same story has been told for generations and it is never true. So-called AI won’t eliminate the need for workers, they will just shift into new jobs.
No one shed a tear when the carriage drivers lost their jobs. Except maybe the carriage drivers and their families.
- netfl0 7y agoWhat did the carriage drivers do? Asking for a friend.
- iancmceachern 7y agoDrive trucks
- s1artibartfast 7y ago>The truck drivers who lose their jobs will get new ones. Or they won't, and we will have a wave a depression, suicide, and populism. The critical factor is the rate of change.
- SideburnsOfDoom 7y ago> The truck drivers who lose their jobs will get new ones. Same story has been told for generations and it is never true. The idea that new jobs will always arise is not a law of nature, it's only an empirical observation that keeps on being true, until one day it doesn't.
- AlchemistCamp 7y ago> No one shed a tear when the carriage drivers lost their jobs. Except maybe the carriage drivers and their families. In the 1880s, there were at least[1] 150,000 horses in New York City. How did the industrial revolution work out for them? Industrialization was about replacing muscles in niche after niche and muscles are what horses supplied. AI is replacing brains. 1) https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urban-design-great-horse-manure-crisis-1894/ https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urb...