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Re:Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming autom... by TAForObvReasons on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:57PM (#17708335)
Funny you mention horses, as it is a common analogy in these discourses. The horse population actually declined as they became less necessary thanks to transportation innovations. CGP Grey explained this well: https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t=212
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Re:Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming autom... by rohit2412 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:12PM (#17711349)
Everyone in the world used to be a farmer. Now, only 1% of the population in developed countries farm. This time it's different?

Actually, I can agree that there had been reduction in global jobs as world gets slowly automated. But there won't be a sudden takeover of all jobs by some super sentient AI leading to mass unemployment. And neither are the current problems of inequality, debt, low wages a result of an increasing productivity, but rather increasing globalization.

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Re:Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming autom... by adventured on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:54PM (#17708874)
It's the exact same thing that is going to occur with the human population. The current popular calculations for global population growth and the reduction of that growth, are wildly wrong. The reduction in growth and eventual decline is going to happen sooner and will be far more aggressive. The horses were replaced, the humans will be replaced.
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Re:Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming autom... by crdoconnor on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:39PM (#17709333)
>The horse population actually declined

No shit. There's fewer typewriters these days too.

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