Only 1.4% of the US population works on the farm today the rest of the 90% found other jobs. Omigod that means 90% of the population will lose their jobs! Only, this didn’t happen. With modern farming techniques we don’t need 90% of the population to work on farms. The thing is, at any point in the last 200 years, an alarmist could concoct a tale of machine devastation.
There’s a tendency to romanticize lost jobs, but you really do not want to be a cotton picker, or a miner, or a laundrywoman, or a data entry typist. In general, pre-automation jobs sucked.US unemployment is currently under 5%- which is about as low as it’s gotten in my lifetime. Despite all the worries about machines taking our jobs- they haven’t.Global poverty is way down it’s never been a better time to be Indian or Chinese. Americans, as usual, focus on bad things in America, and don’t realize that these are boom times for most of the world.And those scourges came almost constantly. Before automation, 90% of the people lived by subsistence agriculture, one bad harvest or pestilence or war away from death. Life for the majority of people is far better.But, with some major caveats, automation is good! After 200 years, Worries about automation go back to the beginning of the industrial revolution, two hundred years ago. Now, there’s a lot to say here, so here’s the tl dr: no, this is only moderately worrisome. Should you be worried? Should you try to make friends with the robots so they treat you nicely? There’s been a lot of worry lately that robots will take all of our jobs.
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