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It's interesting to remember that something like "being good at arithmetic" WAS actually a marketable skill years ago.
Now it isn't, of course.
It would be interesting to see how the job market changed with the advent of personal computing - when computers got cheap enough that most people and certainly all businesses could afford one. Were there people back then, very worried about how computers would replace them?
I imagine there were, but I don't really remember that. I think there was a big push to retrain laid-off factory workers as IT people, but I think that didn't work at all.
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I'm not old enough to remember it first hand, but I have heard people saying the conversation and concerns were similar to today with AI.
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In times of rapid change, more entrepreneurship is really important. We need people hunting out the new profit opportunities.
I think we'll see another similar change, as we saw with electronic computing. Being good at arithmetic hasn't been a marketable skill for a long time. However, being a creative technical thinker became even more valuable.
Now, my guess is that being a walking encyclopedia will lose it's value, but productively using knowledge will be even more valuable.
Honestly, with how fat and sick our society has gotten, a tilt towards physical professions is not the worst thing in the world.