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Over the past 150 years or so we went from ~90% of the labor force working in agriculture to between 1 and 10% working in agriculture. That's a shift of about
by thatthatis 13y ago
Over the past 150 years or so we went from ~90% of the labor force working in agriculture to between 1 and 10% working in agriculture.
That's a shift of about 80% over two generations.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoWe were also able to find jobs for those who no longer worked in ag. It appears there is concern (quite a bit, actually) that we may no longer be able to find jobs for those displaced by software and robotics (automation). If you continue to automate jobs, there will eventually be very few jobs left. How the result of this is handled will be interesting to say the least.
- thatthatis 13y agoThe concern is not new. It's been around for centuries.
- kansface 13y agoSure, but there is reason to believe it is different this time around. We are close to automating away all blue collar jobs outside of the service sector. We are also making inroads in white collar jobs too like law and medicine. At some point, minus an apocalypse, we will be able to automate away most meaningful work for everyone. This was not the case 150 years ago.