Comment by dyauspitr
9 hours ago
When AI wipes out programming jobs over the next few years, do you think we will see a revival in the number of young men going into monkhood?
9 hours ago
When AI wipes out programming jobs over the next few years, do you think we will see a revival in the number of young men going into monkhood?
I think robotically driven historic building renovation is one of the safest jobs.
1. Loads of pent up historic demand 2. Work is complex, sensitive and physical. 3. There's more history every day!
There are other options that are - unfortunately - more likely. Historically the clergy was only a small fraction of the total number of excess males removed.
>"When AI wipes out programming jobs over the next few years, do you think we will see a revival in the number of young men going into monkhood?"
The church historically absorbed excess males in this way and gave them a dignified purpose in life, it's not a crazy thought at all.
Concretely it absorbed an excess of male heirs so they could live a comfy life and would not try an hostile takeover over their elder brothers' state.
>"Concretely it absorbed an excess of male heirs so they could live a comfy life and would not try an hostile takeover over their elder brothers' state."
That was often a consequence, but in general it provided an alternative pathway to male success in life and a means of advancing through a respected status hierarchy that did not depend on the traditional markers. Something sorely lacking today, when even outside the question of inheritance you are faced with the near impossibility of achieving the economically independent and socially valuable life that your grandfather or father had by simply working.
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