If the government cares (so GOTV!) then it will help create new jobs in growth areas.
An example is the jobs program to transition coal industry workers to solar and other jobs.
With the increase in electrical usage, solar, wind and other power, plus the growing EV numbers, there certainly is a demand for electrical technicians and engineers, and being real "build stuff" jobs, are unlikely to be impacted by AI and so on.
Build stuff?
“Guess what? The great real estate builder, the last guy, he didn’t build a damn thing. Under my predecessor, infrastructure week became a punchline. On my watch, infrastructure has been a decade, and it’s a headline.”
In a famous diatribe, Jeff Hammerbacher, an engineer at Facebook studied behavior patterns in a big data-mining task.
Something else gnawed at him. Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks."
https://archive.ph/IVFeY
https://www.smh.com.au/business/why-this-tech-bubble-is-different-20110415-1dhbm.html
His work created no value for users. It surveilled them, and increased ad sales. Nothing was built, except giant datacenters (jobs for computer engineers, electrical and electronic technicians and engineers) to surveil more and sell more ads.
These data centers consume incredible amounts of power. Don't forget, the site that did no customer surveillance, Craig's list, started out with a couple of servers in a closet, and is minuscule in comparison with the FB, Twitter, Google and other spy agencies.
Let's go even more blue, so that the economy grows jobs, roads, power lines and homes and not just stock buybacks.
Whether technology empowers people or subjugates them is a choice.
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