Re: The decline of blue-collar and farming work

On 2025-01-07, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

The decline of blue-collar and farming work was a major source of
social upheaval that we're still coping with today. A more recent
trend (and one sure to be accelerated by gen AI) is the decline of
office & administrative work, another traditionally middle-class
vocation.
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There were a lot of other things happening in the same timeframe though,
so I don't think it's as simple as that:

* increased international trade routes
* economic misfortune
* changes to the labor pool
* decline of the church
* decline of the nuclear family
etc.

The first impact GenAI is going to have on us is that it is going to
crash the electric grid.