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I wonder about this. The global total of agricultural workers is lower than it ever was, even if the total output is higher than it’s ever been.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-people-employed...

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I think there is a fundamental difference between creative work like apparel, programming or animation and basic necessities or basic materials like mining, farming, dying, etc.

To continue with the fabric industry. The automatic removed jobs in weaving fabric, but it made fabric cheaper and created many times those jobs in sewing this fabric.

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