3 billion people moved to cities in the 20th century.
The pitch was "leave behind the drudgery of farm work for a high-status city job".
What happens when the same robots that disrupt today's high-status city jobs also eliminate the farm chores?
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Solomonsatoshi 17h
Mechanisation has already and robotics will continue to reduce the drudgery of farm work.
Pandemic might kill off most of the decadent suburban reptiles.
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 13h
Most food still requires a ton of human labor to produce. The reason most farms are full of wheat, canola, soy, etc… is because they can be planted and harvested at scale from the comfort of a tractor.
That’s not the case for most fruits and vegetables.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 21h
Sports, video games, and reality TV for the many. Quakerism for the few.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 8h
That's not how it happened at all, this is completely backwards.
People moved to the cities not to escape farm work, but because mechanization in the forms of tractors etc made them redundant... far less people required to work the same acreage and more people needed in cities to work the factories.
I would think the next phase is overall more efficient land use in the form of smaller factories and even more productive acreage (mechanized greenhouses etc)
This would make way for more ornamental gardens and open space in and around cities... so not people migrating but suburbs becoming more rural and cities becoming more suburban. Autonomous vehicles, e-bikes etc, would also eliminate traffic and restore asphalt into greenways.
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