Quote from: franky1 on June 01, 2025, 07:07:29 PM

lets just skip ahead to where machines make wood based products, whereby woodworking skillset is no longer required in the labour market. whereby wind_furys skillset in the real world is no longer needed

what should windfury do
.. answer: something else, anything else

i say this because its like 100 years ago, where family farms needed the entire family to work a farm.. but then harvesters and other machines came along. and the main household member(father/husband) got more efficient, sent his kids off to school to learn other skills and when old enough his kids went into the city to work in other industries unrelated to farming.. the main household member got so efficient, he bought up his neighbours farm and joined them all together, they too moved to the city to find new jobs in other industries

there is more population now than there was 100 years ago. and although farming machines have turned the job of 5 people per farm of 10 farms(50 people) into a job requiring only 1 person.. the unemployment rate did not multiply by 50x
and now in 2025, we are not having even more unemployment % levels than 100 years ago

here is the secret
new skills, new industries, new jobs, new futures
..

what has changed over the 100 years is the idea that someone gets a job at 15 and they are still working in the same exact job with same company 45 years later and calling it a 'career'
these days people change jobs yearly, people learn new skills or train to get promoted. many things change and people adapt
new niche industries pop up, and then populate. peoples needs change and thus industries change to meet the new needs

with different people having more leisure time because working 60 hours is no longer needed. people then need more entertainment or hobbies to fill their time and new industries then fulfil the new needs

100 years ago farmers didnt know that they would need to grow more wheat to sell to companies who make mcdonalds burger buns..
100 years ago farmers didnt know that they would need to raise more cows for dairy and meat industry to fill the new need of the fast food industry
..but now we know

sending the farmers children off to school and then to the city to work, birthed the need of fast food, which then helped expand the farming industry

so although windfury may no longer need to hand-tool his carpentry work.. he can become the next ikea selling many more wooden chairs and tables

But here's the problem, if the information about a 0-Engineer future will actually cause "mega layoffs", how fast will those who have gotten laid off get new skillsets to get new jobs?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To the actual point of my post, which is pivoting to real Q.E. and turning on the money printer. - Will the amount of time for finding/learning new skillsets and getting new jobs be short enough for the "mega layoffs" not to matter?