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Re:America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom by nebula8804 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:42AM (#45577681)
Homer Simpson exemplifies this. Heres a guy that never went to college being the lead safety inspector for a nuclear power plant. He owns his home with three kids a stay at home wife and two cars and two pets(with the occasional elephant that comes and goes). A lot has changed since the writing of these characters and the world now.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp2Ey0H7OUE

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Re:America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom by nikanj on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @05:06AM (#45577801)
My go-to example is Al Bundy. He was a loser, but most zoomers can only dream of having a house, a few kids, a car project in the garage et cetera
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Re:America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom by nebula8804 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @05:46AM (#45578058)
Yes absolutely! I was never too much into Married with Children as a kid hence I jumped straight to the simpsons but the idea of a shoe salesman having all of that today? Not possible.
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Re:America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom by culll_kuprey on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @08:27AM (#45579227)
That guy did retail shoe sales too. I’ve known some people to survive off those type of jobs, but they sure as hell weren’t living with a sitcom family in the burbs.
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Re:America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom by chasd00 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:19PM (#45584303)
you guys understand that was a fictional comedy show right? It had no resemblance to reality on purpose.
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Re:America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom by euler2100 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @07:06PM (#45586056)
Sure, but the shows tried to relate somehow to the reality of the time they depicted. They could've also make the character have another profession but it would be much less credible.
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