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Re:AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers by paulddraper on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:02PM (#40763398)
Farmers went from 70% to less than 20% of the population in a single lifetime.

How frequently do you lament their disappearance?

Re:AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers by drekk on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:25PM (#40763516)
The health and environmental impacts of centralizing and industrializing food production are lamentable, even if most Americans don't think about it.
Re:AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers by hazbot on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:22PM (#40763821)
Less lamentable than the health impacts (famine) of not centralizing and industrializing food production!
Re:AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers by N0b8ez on Monday June 24, 2024 @01:35AM (#40772869)
Centralizing and industrializing food production has its own famine hazards, like if a strong solar flare were to happen.
Re:AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers by paulddraper on Sunday June 23, 2024 @12:22AM (#40764770)
Assuming it were feasible, do you wish you were a farmer?
Re:AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers by tail_exchange on Sunday June 23, 2024 @01:28AM (#40765017)
I may be in the minority in this very diverse crowd, but yes, I would prefer that over my corporate job.
Re:AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers by paulddraper on Sunday June 23, 2024 @12:18PM (#40768514)
You would certainly be in the minority.

The vast majority of mankind has left farming, once the opportunity presented itself.