The Day the World Stopped Needing Horses: What AI Could Mean for Human Jobs
AIFuture Of WorkIndustrial RevolutionProgrammingEconomicsThe Day the World Stopped Needing HorsesSourav Ray6 min read·Just now--ListenShareIn early 1900, the world had a problem that sounds strangely familiar today. It had built an economy around a form of labor that was becoming easier to replace. There were roughly 110 million horses in the world, and they were everywhere.
- ▪AIFuture Of WorkIndustrial RevolutionProgrammingEconomicsThe Day the World Stopped Needing HorsesSourav Ray6 min read·Just now--ListenShareIn early 1900, the world had a problem that sounds strangely familiar today.
- ▪It had built an economy around a form of labor that was becoming easier to replace.
- ▪There were roughly 110 million horses in the world, and they were everywhere.
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AIFuture Of WorkIndustrial RevolutionProgrammingEconomicsThe Day the World Stopped Needing HorsesSourav Ray6 min read·Just now--ListenShareIn early 1900, the world had a problem that sounds strangely familiar today. It had built an economy around a form of labor that was becoming easier to replace. There were roughly 110 million horses in the world, and they were everywhere. They moved people, pulled freight, worked farms, carried soldiers and powered the daily machinery of economic life. Then the automobile and mechanised agriculture began changing the equation. Nobody needed to declare horses obsolete. Nobody needed to send them to the slaughterhouse. The economy simply discovered that it could produce the same output with fewer horses.That distinction matters.
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