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enroger

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Even service industries are affected by AI. In fact white collar work might be suffering more from AI than stuff in trades. For example customer service queries, paralegal document review, data processing etc. all of these can be streamline automated making there less need for number of people.

That is true, it will be hard going forward, but customer service is not everything in service economy. My main point is that India's growth need not be necessarily seen as a threat, it depends on which direction they take in developing their economy.

Another point I'd make is that India likes to model it's society after western capitalist democracy. Therefore they will also follow the western societies pattern of economic development leading to capital consolidation, social stratification and eventually end-stage capitalism with oligarchy. It is the same trap most developing countries eventually fell into and stagnated, the question is how far along they will go before it happens.
 

henrik

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That is true, it will be hard going forward, but customer service is not everything in service economy. My main point is that India's growth need not be necessarily seen as a threat, it depends on which direction they take in developing their economy.

Another point I'd make is that India likes to model it's society after western capitalist democracy. Therefore they will also follow the western societies pattern of economic development leading to capital consolidation, social stratification and eventually end-stage capitalism with oligarchy. It is the same trap most developing countries eventually fell into and stagnated, the question is how far along they will go before it happens.

AI and robots will be taking jobs from India's service and manufacturing industries. They will not be able to fully develop their economy.
 

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
Very flattering and true article. It basically says that China's so good at making things and so good at climbing the value chain that soon, China will make the best of everything in the world and the West will have nothing that China wants in trade. Tech-wise, that's true. But realistically, they can still trade us banana republic stuff, train-loads and ship-loads of agricultural products (wholesome, organic, non-GMO, all those fancy buzzwords that hippies like) for a couple of our machines. Then they can show off their fancy Chinese appliances and cars that only rich Westerners can afford and the poorer ones can yearn to one day be good enough to use Chinese things but have to settle for domestic or third world junk. Meanwhile, these Chinese machines are standard issue in all Chinese homes and Chinese people will make fun of the West for being poor, trading half a month's food production and starving themselves to afford something the average Chinese person may lay outside on the curb when moving. That'll be sweet full circle.
The funny thing is, this dude works in concerts; it's literally his education-not-required job to dazzle people with sounds and lights. Everything he posts is low IQ shit; he'd be more fucked than a fish in the desert if you dropped him in a laboratory.
 
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