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Agriculture use to employ a majority of people. Now less than 5%.

Mechanisation destroyed jobs. New ones were invented.

Creative destruction. Relevant in the AI revolution.

If the bots don't kill us, we will be looking at an age of abundance. Techno-optimism is justified.

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epsql · 5d

Read this (yeah it's long) and then let me know about techno-optimism https://consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/

Christian Lacdael · 5d

Here, East Anglia farmers still bus in gypsies and Asian workers, same as.

Raison d'État · 5d

Agriculture got there via the Enclosure Acts, security forces evicting entire communities and dumping them in slums, to make way for less labour-intensive and more profitable forms of agriculture. AI could deliver abundance, but expect government to leverage it to create the opposite...