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by siva7 299 days ago
Blue collar is the only bastion safe from AI. As we office workers lose our jobs we need to retrain
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Spoken like someone who's never been inside an assembly line.
I don’t think robots will be replacing a toilet or retrofitting PEX in an old home anytime soon. Though it might be nice for the drywall guys to have robots make the cuts instead of the plumbers.
It depends on the blue collar job, but electrician, plumber, roofer, all seem pretty safe from automation for a while at least.
Longshoremen in the USA have had to fight tooth and nail to avoid the automation that the other world ports of adopted, much to the detriment of port capacity.
Wait for AI-powered robots in the field.