points by causal 3 days ago | 0 comments
At best all we can do is make knowledge work cheaper right now. But knowledge work was never the bottleneck behind energy prices, food production, transportation, cargo, etc.
[–] KeplerBoy 3 days ago
[–] qwytw 3 days ago
> It was knowledge work that brought us fertilizers, tractors, trucks and large ships, which
Yes but the number of people who actually worked on the R&D and the amount of time they spent on it is absolutely insignificant on the grand scale of things.
[–] causal 3 days ago
Still not the bottleneck.
Otherwise most of us would still toil on the fields just to harvest a tiny bit more food than our immediate family needs.