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The article is interesting, the headline is baffling. It seems to be claiming that it is possible to pay Indians a medium-single-figure daily wage (ie, $1,000/y
by roenxi 2y ago
The article is interesting, the headline is baffling. It seems to be claiming that it is possible to pay Indians a medium-single-figure daily wage (ie, $1,000/year) despite having 40% of the country working in the agricultural industry.
Great but that myth is and was of no real interest to anyone and isn't a very useful frame for the article. India still needs to move most of the population on to doing something more productive than inefficiently looking after plants. The goal is not 1 billion people living off slightly more than $1,000/year. The goal is living standards at least an order of magnitude higher if not several orders. That requires capital, not subsistence+ farming. Which, to their credit, is what the Indians seem to be focusing on.
- sureIy 2y ago> inefficiently looking after plants Might be a better life than smelling exhaust gas and looking at screens for 3/4 of our existence. Then wake up and worry about AI eventually eating our jobs.
- icetank 2y agoI take looking at screens in an office over breathing exhaust gases and pesticides any day. Working on a farm is hard work even in developed countries.
- milesrout 2y agoBy the time most of India is at the level of development that their problem is looking at screens, the cars will be battery-electric. AI has as much chance of taking your job as combine harvesters have of taking everyone's job that currently has one in India working on farms: 99%, maybe, but also 0%.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoFrom my perspective (ultimately), it's about building infrastructure, education, and industries that sustainably improve quality of life
- insane_dreamer 2y ago> India still needs to move most of the population on to doing something more productive than inefficiently looking after plants. Not sure that this should be the goal.