When agriculture got automated, it went from most of the workforce to 3% over thirty years. People would look at what you and I do for a living - having a conversation in Davos - and be like 'that's not a real job. Real job is manual labor in the fields.' But we think of it as a job.
“And when agriculture got automated, you know, now it's like 3% or something of the workforce work.”
And when agriculture got automated, you know, now it's like 3% or something of the workforce work. Yeah. That would happened over thirty years. Yeah. Yeah. And so I think they would look at what you and I do for a living. Like, we're just having a cool conversation in Davos talking. They'd be like, that's not a real job. Like, real job is like manual labor in the fields. Right. You just you're on vacation all the time, but we we think of it as a job. And, you know, people who are like typing on a keyboard, but you get to sit in an air conditioned office or whatever. It's stressful. That's for sure. It can be stressful, but that's just I'd rather be doing that than be doing back breaking labor in the in the sun digging a dish or something. Right? So I think that job displacement is like not a bad thing, actually, actually, if it means that people can do new kinds of work and new kinds of job. Now, is there gonna be a transition period? Yes.
Why this clip
Historical parallel that reframes AI job displacement fears. The Davos setting adds meta-commentary on knowledge work, making it relatable while challenging assumptions about what constitutes 'real work.'
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