Re:AI could replace equivalent of 300M jobs – report
by Turing_Machine on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:39AM
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> Not that long ago there used to be people who would add up columns of numbers to calculate the books at companies
Sure. If you go back a few centuries before that (much less in some regions of the world), you had maybe 90% of the population consisting of unfree agricultural laborers (serfs or slaves), with say 10% as soldiers to keep the serfs in line and defend the land against invaders, and a very, very thin veneer of lords and priests at the top.
> But people will deal.
I agree. They will. No one worries about all the unemployed serfs, because there aren't any. They're all doing other stuff.
Sure. If you go back a few centuries before that (much less in some regions of the world), you had maybe 90% of the population consisting of unfree agricultural laborers (serfs or slaves), with say 10% as soldiers to keep the serfs in line and defend the land against invaders, and a very, very thin veneer of lords and priests at the top.
> But people will deal.
I agree. They will. No one worries about all the unemployed serfs, because there aren't any. They're all doing other stuff.