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A comment on Ask HN: How to identify niche fields that would flourish with the aid of tech?.

Re:Ask HN: How to identify niche fields that would flourish ... by fxtentacle on Monday April 11, 2022 @03:40AM (#30985797)
Everything where there's a lot of people working on it. Tech tends to replace employees and the more get fired, the bigger the savings. We then call that leverage.

- customer support

- health/beauty/nutrition advice

- "content creation" ie blog post SEO spam

- tax/legal

- digitizing, managing, filing out paperwork

- supermarket cashiers

- government bureocracy of any kind

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Re:Ask HN: How to identify niche fields that would flourish ... by exodust on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:44AM (#30989495)
> supermarket cashiers

I don't use the self-checkouts anymore since they installed cameras on the screens at some of the supermarkets in my area. I don't care about normal CCTV in ceiling. But when the camera is 30cm from my face as I pack bags, it's literally a mechanical eye replacing the human eye of the cashier.

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