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b_b · 3250 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask Hubski: What would you do with your free time if you didn't have to work?
I believe that many current industries will be obsolete. We need only to look to the fate of agriculture and rail roads to know that no industry, no matter how blue chip, is invincible to the advance of better technologies. There will no doubt be a giant reduction in the number of people who work as mailmen and dry cleaners. Hopefully even lawyers will be reduced. That said, if I knew where all of these jobs would be made up, then I'd be a fortune teller, or at the very least a very wealthy investor. I haven't a clue, but experience tells us that given the space to innovate, create, and improve, we will do so. It's less optimistic naïveté, and more inductive reasoning, but I'll not venture a guess about mechanism.