Somebody's Gotta Do It, Or, Do They?

 

I remember this guy. He used to crawl under houses and clean poop traps for a living. Sort of. Mike Rowe made a nice living searching America for the dirtiest, filthiest, smelliest jobs, then getting down and dirty for a couple of hours to show us how very hard manual labor can be. Then he went home to his giant house, probably soaking in his jacuzzi, because he made more money than any laborer he portrayed for the cameras that day. He still advocates skilled labor over a college education, claiming AI can rule in academia but never clean a toilet. People gotta do that. I used to watch his show, 'Dirty Jobs.' It was interesting to see how people worked every single day, in this case, dealing with the grossness and physical difficulties these jobs entail. Plus, he is a handsome man, so that was an added bonus. And then I heard he liked Trump. I broke off my crush, toot sweet. 

Rowe is still out there defending Trump's ridiculous tariffs and wants more Americans to get dirty. Don't be a thinker, be a ditch digger, or now, a potato picker. He says AI won't be able to touch those jobs. It's best to point out we've come a long way towards eliminating back breaking labor and dumbing down the citizens who had to quit school in the sixth grade because they were needed on the farm. We still have a way to go there considering the amount of red hatted farmers who are now suffering from fafo. 

As far as I know, farmers don't plant seeds by using shovels and wheelbarrows anymore. They use giant, scary, computerized machines which could rip your arms off if you aren't careful. Being a farmer is dangerous work. Any manual labor has massive drawbacks with death a possibility. I don't believe there are too many signs in clean, air conditioned offices warning you to be especially diligent because you might lose an arm or your head. 

I watch interesting YouTube channels which show how machinery has made life so much easier for the laborer. A machine can make a whole road! Eventually, we won't need people to stand on a road which is being repaired, holding a red flag for eight hours, where the odds of getting unalived by some drunk texting on his phone are just part of the job description. So, of course there will have to be people who run the machines, who have to go to school (((gasp))) to learn their part, but all the hard labor will involve machinery and AI. 

So where does that leave humans? How will people survive if they don't have to get up at 5 am, drive in heavy traffic, bend, fold and cry for eight hours, then repeat the process for fifty plus years!?

I dunno! I won't be around when or if that happens, so good luck, kids. You'll figure it out. 

Hopefully, those tariffs will finally all be worth it by then.

*That's AI Mike.