Comment by thrance
8 days ago
You think that all knowledge workers of the world will accept their social and material downgrades without making wave? That they'll all be able to find manual work?
8 days ago
You think that all knowledge workers of the world will accept their social and material downgrades without making wave? That they'll all be able to find manual work?
Who knows, maybe we'll come to value manual and caring work once AI can easily do all the moving-electrons-on-a-screen?
The financial and social hierarchy you allude to is not immutable. Programming was once a low-paid, low-status job done largely by women. It's only relatively recently that it's become a lucrative, high-status masculine-coded career.