alt Hacker News> Anything that can replace a deeply experienced s/ware engineer can replace anyone in the employment stack
Nope, just knowledge workers. We’re decades away from automating many manual labor professions, even “unskilled” ones.
Turns out brains just aren’t as special as we thought.
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I think the manual professions are not far behind. It's just that the development is being done in China, so most readers here are not aware of it.
> Nope, just knowledge workers.
Nope, just a specific kind. Those who developed and cultivated only a very specific skill set at the expense of all others.
I used to think being a generalist, and having persued technical roles with a people facing element was to my detriment, but it’s turned out to be the best decision I ever made.
The major blocker for manual labor automation in that fashion is cheap energy. China is ahead of the pack with the States' weight behind aggressive expansion of solar tech, and still can't do that.
> Nope, just knowledge workers. We’re decades away from automating many manual labor professions, even “unskilled” ones.
How do you figure? We’ve already automated away way more manual labor jobs than we currently have.