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To: i-node who wrote (1487827)	9/20/2024 1:43:28 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1570940

Inode, What exactly is the point of AI if not to reduce the number of workers per-capita? Why would we pay humans to do jobs that can be done faster, better, cheaper by robots and computers? Because there will always be jobs out there that robots and computers can't do. The next most obvious sector to take the hit is the uber and taxi driver, as well as over-the-road truck driver, which are dead meat just waiting to be scavenged. What do you reckon these people (or those who replace them in the population count) are going to do in their jobs? There is a pattern in the Korean immigrant community where 1st-generation immigrants would set up some sort of shop that other Koreans have already set up. Dry cleaners, restaurants, nail salons, convenience stores, grocery stores, etc. They do that because a formula for success has already been established, and they follow the formula down to the minute details. Eventually these business models, of course, become obsolete. Dry cleaning is being taken over by the big chains. The restaurant business has always been incredibly difficult. The market for nail salons are being taken over by Chinese and Vietnamese competition. Independent convenience stores and grocery stores can't survive anymore thanks to the big chains combined with increased costs. (Rising crime in urban cities also plays a factor.) But do you see unemployment among Koreans going up? Of course not. There are no statistics for Korean-American unemployment, but Asian-American unemployment has consistently been below the national average. And I guarantee you that Asian-American immigrants follow the same patterns that I've seen among Koreans. Now how does this apply to taxi and Uber drivers? Look at the vast majority of these drivers. They are immigrants. They are flexible workers. They drive taxis and Ubers because they're lucrative and the barriers for entry are low. What are they going to do when the Waymos and the other self-driving taxis start taking over our cities? They'll find other jobs, just like the 1st-generation Korean immigrants whose own formulae for success became obsolete. What will those jobs look like? Where will those jobs come from? Beats the crap out of me, but there's always a shortage of something. For example, my wife and I had to look for a new tax CPA because our old CPA became an elitist asshole. However, there is a shortage of CPAs in the SF Bay Area. Why can't some of these former Uber drivers get some training and study to get their CPA licenses? Speaking of which, you would think that tax CPAs are becoming obsolete in the age of TurboTax. But that's far from the case, especially when the tax code continues to grow and grow. Tenchusatsu