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by bjacobt 1123 days ago
What I’m wondering is, what happened to those people whose work were replaced by steam or electricity - Were they able to quickly up-skill?

With AI it maybe good in macro terms but what about the folks impacted by it? Will it be possible from them to find another job without significant training/education?

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> Will it be possible from them to find another job without significant training/education?

This to me is the core problem. We give people in their lives really one chance to skill up. Basic skills through secondary education and then a period afterwards when you have no social responsibilities to go to college. If you need to retrain 15 years down the road, there is no support for supporting your family for you. If you try to pad your costs to sandbag for the eventuality of having to leave your industry for a couple of years to upskill, then some will take that as your margin and undercut you.

> Will it be possible from them to find another job without significant training/education?

Or at all. If a large percentage of jobs go away, there's a very real chance that there won't be enough new jobs at any training/education level to make up for it.