One thing rarely mentioned is what happens when all the white collar people lose their job and can no longer pay for expensive blue collar work?

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defrost 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Simple enough, one group will be living in houses falling apart, the other group will be renovating distressed cheap housing into relative mansions to live in or flip at cost or less.

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rogerrogerr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is a much larger number of people who can do electrical work than those who are "electricians". We will instead see more people doing their own work, mostly with success.

	▲	defrost 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Regardless, dry walling, stud framing, roof trussing, foundations, plumbing, gas fitting, electrics, etc are all umbrella'ed under "blue collar work". Those who can, will, those who can't won't - and in response to the question posed, those who can no longer afford will either have to learn how or put up with decay creep.

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theteapot 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What does that mean?

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taneq 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Tradies will buy poorly maintained houses and fix them up.

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rogerrogerr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

ChatGPT will tell everyone else (who cares to do it) how to do the same thing. It's not hard.

	▲	taneq an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As a software guy who’s worked alongside trades for the past 15 years, ChatGPT can tell you some of the tricks but the know-how comes from hands-on experience. I’ve lost count of the tips and tricks I’ve picked up from watching and talking to those guys.
	▲	defrost 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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bpodgursky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, in principle the economy scales to the labor constraint.

Obviously there are practical limitations to how fast things can rearrange but there's no reason in principle you couldn't have an economy where everyone retrained into blue collar work, and all white collar job needs were handled by the magic internet box.