alt Hacker NewsFood production is a class case where once productivity is high enough you simply get fewer farmers.
We are currently a long way from that kind of change as current AI tools suck by comparison to literally 1,000x increases in productivity. So, in well under 100 years programming could become extremely niche.
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quantumHazer • yesterday at 4:13 PM
> Food production is a class case where once productivity is high enough you simply get fewer farmers.
Yes, but.
There are more jobs in other fields that are adjacent to food production, particularly in distribution. Middle class does not existed and retail workers are now a large percentage of workers in most parts of the world.
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We are seeing an interesting limit in the food case though.
We increased production and needed fewer farmers, but we now have so few farmers that most people have very little idea of what food really is, where it comes from, or what it takes to run our food system.
Higher productivity is good to a point, but eventually it risks becoming too fragile.