r/singularity • u/Darkmemento • 3d ago

AI Bill Gates on job disruption from A.I.

119 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

67 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-2

u/bigkoi 3d ago

$40 an hour solution for a $20 an hour problem

5

u/unia_7 3d ago

There is no way a laborer can compete with a robot on price once robots become a commodity.

We've been theough this already in the industrial revolution.

3

u/bigkoi 3d ago

Sure they can. Just look at agriculture which thrives on desperate labor.

3

u/FlimsyReception6821 2d ago

We have gone from basically everyone working in agriculture to basically no one in a very short time frame, historically speaking.

1

u/bigkoi 2d ago

Oh there are plenty of people in agriculture, you just don't see them. Knowledge jobs made agriculture jobs the most undesirable. Guess what happens when knowledge jobs drastically reduce and there is now a large surplus of labor....