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by aurareturn 883 days ago
I see high income, high skilled workers being affected earlier. There's nothing to automate away the cleaner I'm hiring to clean my house once a week.
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Except without the high income job, you can't afford the housecleaner.
So the house cleaners won’t be automated away, just unemployed because nobody can pay them.
And the high skilled worker unemployed they’ll both downsize their house and have time to clean it themselves
And we all lose as a society, as we waste a little bit more specialization.
But society needs to afford the garbageman, the janitor, the person who fixes the street lights.

Most work done is like this, still, even today. It may be replaced down the road, but an AI model won't help someone take out the trash.