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[quote=Anonymous]Is the 100M jobs US only?  We only have ~330M people in the country and a bunch of those are kids/elderly.

Can only pay for a plumber, electrician, etc if one has money to pay for one.  If things get tight, more people will DIY out of necessity.

I have no doubt AI will change things substantially, particularly in certain industries.  But I think it's hard to project how exactly work will change.  Consider how many new jobs exist now that didn't just 20 years ago.  I work in a space that didn't exist now made possible by technological advances in many different industries.  I don't know that we can say AI won't do the same.

I think students now should think of their education as preparing for a rapidly changing environment.  Learning how to learn,  Learning to synthesize inputs from a variety of sources, etc  At a time when it seems there is a push toward 'job ready' today, there is a risk of missing out on laying a solid foundation for rapid change.

Trades will be needed of course, but if that catches on, it will burn itself out like every other job/industry 'trend'.  It gets saturated, pay drops, jobs getting harder to find.  Rinse and repeat[/quote]

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