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Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did by whatisthiseven on Thursday March 12, 2026 @05:23PM (#47357323)
On the contrary, humanity spent nearly its entire existence calorically deficit, and until mechanized farming did we finally see health outcomes improve, height increase, IQ increase, and populations explode.

Productivity gains in the case of mechanized labor got everyone out of subsistence farming and into factories.

AI gets everyone out of every job and into nothing.

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Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did by jopsen on Friday March 13, 2026 @03:09AM (#47361494)
> AI gets everyone out of every job and into nothing.

Why is mechanized thinking going to do that? When mechanized labor didn't?

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Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did by concats on Friday March 13, 2026 @04:32AM (#47361916)
> Why is mechanized thinking going to do that? When mechanized labor didn't?

You're right. There is technically a category of work that relies on neither our ability to do physical labor nor excessive thinking. It just relies on being a human.

The conclusion is thus obvious: AI is going to push us all into careers as photo models, OF-creators, and social media influencers! /s

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