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They shouldn't. They should go work in a different industry. The butter churners didn't just die, they became professionals doing something else.
by polski-g 3y ago
They shouldn't. They should go work in a different industry.
The butter churners didn't just die, they became professionals doing something else.
- JohnFen 3y ago> They should go work in a different industry. This is more problematic than it seems, though. What if there isn't enough work in other industries to absorb the people? If AI works out as proponents want, this seems likely because lots of jobs, across a wide swath of industries, will be eliminated. There's also the issue that not everyone is suited for every kind of job.
- DoughnutHole 3y agoThat’s not the reality of real industrial displacements. Rust belt towns in the US and coal towns in Britain are miserable places - their populations didn’t adapt when the industries that employed 90% percent of their working population disappeared, the quality of life in these areas just plummeted. People often adapt when big changes come to their industries. They don’t adapt when their entire livelihoods disappear. LLMs look to have the potential to do this not just to a segment of one part of the economy in some regions, but to the entire knowledge economy the world over.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoReplace [butter churner] with [coal miner] or [auto worker] and in fact that's what happened to thousands of people who were cast to the wind when entire industries shut down. They lost their homes and health care and died earlier than they had to, leaving nothing but broken families and communities.