Comment by bandrami
10 hours ago
That's his point. Drastically reducing agricultural employment didn't keep us from getting fed (and led to a significantly richer population overall -- there's a reason people left the villages for the industrial cities)
I'm not sure that's what they meant. Read like this:
> the tractor and plow are doing a lot more work than 3 farmers, yet we've got more jobs and grow more food.
it sounds to me like they mean "more job and grow more food" in the same context as "the tractor and plow [that] are doing a lot more work than 3 farmers"
But you could be right in which case I agree with them.
But where will office workers displaced by AI leave? Industrialization brought demand for factory work (and later grew service sector), but I can't see what new opportunities AI is creating. There are only so many service people AI billionaires need to employ.
there's no reason to believe this trend will continue forever, simply because it has held for the past hundred years or so