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I don't see the farmer getting down to 3.5 hours a week, even for the row crop megafarms you're describing. Firing some hands, yes. But you're good to highligh

• tharkun__ 3y ago
  I think that's the point JPMorgan (and others in various replies) are making. The rich mega farmer is going to use "AI" (whatever that actually means) to replace some things that are done by these "children" today. On some spreadsheet they are working 3.5 days. Across the entire population. If that actually happens to real American children across the board in corporate America, I will be impressed and proclaim the opposite of everything I say. What I think will actually happen is what you are saying. Fire some manual labor that today is still actually needed and getting paid. Many if not most of those are already not American workers but temporary or outright illegal foreign workers anyway. Not all of it being because "rich people are bad" but also because "poor people are not poor enough" (so to speak - I know this is "political suicide"). What our 1950s ancestors called hard but fair and honorable sweat labor is unthinkable to many of us today and we gladly let it be done by said half illegal labor and we turn the other way and binge watch another Netflix show while complaining that we can't find any good jobs!