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user-inactivated · 3324 days ago · link · · parent · post: Could technology displace even specialized jobs?
Back in the day, 1 out of 7 Americans were employed either directly or indirectly with keeping horses alive. Horse trainers, blacksmiths, the guys who scraped the horse poop off the street, the guys who delivered hay, breeders etc. If that number is 1 out of 7000 now I'd be shocked it was that high. Did those jobs go away all the sudden? of course not. The video of San Francisco in 1906 before the quake... this is 20+ years after internal combustion engines began to show up on the streets. The old jobs will become rare and new jobs and skills will replace them. Like any transition it is going to be interesting living though it.