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Maybe we get off all these useless websites and stop doing our useless jobs and go back to the real world

• nine_k 7mo ago
  Welders? Car mechanics? Nurses? Cooks? Cleaners?..
  • ryandrake 7mo ago
    Whatever real-world jobs they expect knowledge workers to take on after we are all replaced by AI... we at least know they will pay less than our current "useless jobs".
    • georgemcbay 7mo ago
      > we at least know they will pay less than our current "useless jobs". ...and they will also likely pay less than they do now because there will be more labor supply, which the people currently doing those jobs won't be happy about.
    • bluefirebrand 7mo ago
      Really optimistic to assume such jobs will exist in the volumes needed to absorb all of the knowledge workers
      • entrox 7mo ago
        Elderly care will always have more demand than supply.
        • nine_k 7mo ago
          IOW, less paid demand than a willing supply.
  • SoftTalker 7mo ago
    Well, we need all those things. And AI can't do them.
  • pastel8739 7mo ago
    I guess I’m not sure what you mean. I don’t consider these useless, but also think that very few of the HN clientele holds any of these jobs.
    • nine_k 7mo ago
      These are good, useful jobs. But how many welders does the industry need? How many restaurant servers? The demand for nurses will, of course, grow and grow, but I'm not certain that their pay will be, mmm, middle-class.
• 8bitsrule 7mo ago
  >stop doing our useless jobs and go back to the real world LOL ... that's almost an exact quote of words once spoken by an exasperated, major university philosophy professor at a departmental meeting Like being a medieval monastery copyist, it beats ditch-digging. Anyway ... thank whatever gods may be for universal basic income!