Re:The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet – It’s the End of the Middle C...
by xapata on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:16PM
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> outside ...?
I meant "blue collar" as a metaphor for employing a large group of regular folks, not for outside work.
Manufacturing jobs in the middle of the 20th century were a core part of the economy. As robotics and other forms of automation replace more human activities, computer programming might become somewhat similar to the assembly-line job of the past. If not, I can't think of anything else that could plausibly take that role, in which case there would not be a large middle class.
I meant "blue collar" as a metaphor for employing a large group of regular folks, not for outside work.
Manufacturing jobs in the middle of the 20th century were a core part of the economy. As robotics and other forms of automation replace more human activities, computer programming might become somewhat similar to the assembly-line job of the past. If not, I can't think of anything else that could plausibly take that role, in which case there would not be a large middle class.