u/FlanneryODostoevsky

2nd year apprentice that’s been on the books about half a year now and it’s got me thinking that there’s more fragility in the market than I thought before. I’m used to being in education and only having to worry about summers of no work.

But our real threat may really come as people flock to trades because they’ve been kicked out of their careers. More apprentices will mean more nonunion and cheaper labor available and ultimately more of us being out of work more often. We shouldn’t be so quick to think just because a robot can’t do our individual job that it won’t have a tremendous effect on our career.

“Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. “

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Which means whoever is in office, the same people are in charge.

It’s true we will always need the trades but the more ai takes away other jobs, the more people will enter careers with less barriers to entry.

That or riot.

Thats gonna mean longer out of work lists for unions, more intermittent and short term employment, larger crews that get more work done faster.