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Assembly line work replacing artisans and craftsman. The skills required to build a desk 300 years ago are very different than the skill inputs. Many construc
by JamesBarney 4y ago
Assembly line work replacing artisans and craftsman. The skills required to build a desk 300 years ago are very different than the skill inputs.
Many construction jobs have seen a replacement of carpenters and masons with lower skilled workers due to pre-fabrication.
Fast food workers replacing chefs and cooks.
Taxi drivers being replaced with Uber drivers.
- User23 4y agoI don’t see the fry cook at McDonalds as doing the same thing as Julia Child. Uber drivers are on average considerably less familiar with their cities than taxi drivers, at least in cities like London that still have meaningful standards. Likewise hauling a double-wide to a plot isn’t the same activity as building a house. It appears to me that your argument either fails or is rhetorical hyperbole when comparing like for like. For example, I have no doubt that a cabinet maker today using advanced power tools could make a cabinet of at least equal quality as a master using hand tools in considerably less time and even with a lower skill level. But that power tool using cabinet maker still wouldn’t be remotely close to a four hour novice.
- graderjs 4y agoYeah, but a power tool is not exactly the same at ChatGPT (in this instance it's your metaphors that are out of whack! :)). You could jump on an assembly line and do it tho. You're just not seeing the whole metaphor here!