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treisyesterday at 9:26 PM1 replyview on HN

Could you have predicted in 1920 that in 2020 that 48% of the country would stop farming and some would be programmers?


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rglullisyesterday at 10:02 PM

"Past performance is not indicative of future results". People stopped being in farms because automation freed manual labor and people could move up in the value chain. We are getting to the point where there will be no chain left to go up to, at all. If you don't see the difference, I don't know what else to tell you.