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Woolie Wool posted:They're imagining it happen to other people and not themselves, because that's how humans work. Also it's really hard for people to conceptualize what it means for a job to be automated. As a stupid anecdotal example, I know someone who's been working as, essentially, a data entry person for about a decade. Her job was originally to spend all day literally copying paper records into a database. Now she hardly ever does that because that process is largely automated, and so were a lot of the other responsibilities she picked up in the interim. Now her job description basically amounts to "do whatever around the office," including things that would have definitely been handled by other employees a decade earlier. If she quit tomorrow, I guarantee she wouldn't be replaced and most of her responsibilities would just be distributed to other people. That's real automation, but when most people hear the term they think of literal robots coming in and taking their jobs.
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You realize that basically nobody in the US is actually employed in agriculture, right? It's something like 2% of all employment. And yeah, farming and mining have changed an incredible amount with technology. Agriculture is also likely to see some pretty drastic changes with automation over the next few decades.
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