alt Hacker NewsThey got higher paying jobs as more of mankind could specialize away from grunt labor.
How do you think, despite centuries of jobs being automated, that more people work than ever before, and have quality of life few if any could dream of when large parts of the workforce was employed in backbreaking labor?
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Which higher-paying jobs were those, which have not and are not presently under the same threat of disappearing?
When you replace 7 jobs with 1 job, 6 jobs don't magically appear, much less ones which match the qualifications of those 6 people.
How many non-AI companies using AI are increasing headcount as a result, compared to those which don't use AI? Did the Washington Post just hire 33% more people, or did they eliminate 33% of their positions?
Does this extend to the ones pushed into the gig economy working 16h a week every day without holidays or sick leaves or anything really. No? Didn't think so really. Even the literal slaves in the 1800 century had housing.