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The demand for cushy white collar desk jobs (which weren't around 30 years ago) is crashing. Rest of the world, not so much.
by nurettin 5mo ago
The demand for cushy white collar desk jobs (which weren't around 30 years ago) is crashing. Rest of the world, not so much.
- elromulous 5mo agoCushy white collar desk jobs were not around in the mid 90s?
- new_account_100 5mo agoNope, Most American workers were just auto plant workers and soybean farmers until the internet was invented in 1991.
- ralph84 5mo ago30 years ago was the middle of the .com boom and white collar jobs had been around for a century already. White collar employment started with the industrial revolution and really took off during the post-WWII boom.
- dyauspitr 5mo agoFigure has been doing a 75 hour live stream of it actually replacing a real job and it has that AI magic where it has gestures and movements that seem emergent. They’re coming for anything manual in less than 2 years.