The Dark Side of AI: How Automation Could Leave Knowledge Workers as Poor as Farmers
If farming automation allowed farmers to compress 4,200 hours of labor into 2 hours, increase yields 10x through loss reduction, and dramatically expand their farms’ production, why aren’t farmers rich? Well… there are a variety of reasons. They don’t own the means of production. The John Deere X9 1100 I mentioned in my last post…