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by five18pm 4680 days ago
How does one go about eating the sun or the trillion trillion watts produced by sun? You need all that energy converted to something edible - that means there is at least one job, agriculture. If you can automate that, then there is the job of automation engineer. And so it goes...
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It's called photosynthesis, and it requires zero human intervention.
Photosynthesis is ridiculously inefficient at anything but building physical materials. And it would require a whole lot of human intervention to capture more than the pinprick of insolation that happens to fall on the non-arctic, non-desert parts of planet Earth (rather than waste off into space).