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Welders? Car mechanics? Nurses? Cooks? Cleaners?..

• ryandrake 8mo 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 8mo 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 8mo ago
    Really optimistic to assume such jobs will exist in the volumes needed to absorb all of the knowledge workers
    • entrox 8mo ago
      Elderly care will always have more demand than supply.
      • nine_k 8mo ago
        IOW, less paid demand than a willing supply.
• SoftTalker 8mo ago
  Well, we need all those things. And AI can't do them.
• pastel8739 8mo 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 8mo 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.