I believe this is exactly the kind of high-paying job that is difficult for AI to replace.
Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years
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#12As a Canadian cool! Never heard of this school before but on the west coast so probably why. I've watched many watch repair videos online and the knowledge base required is huge. Also there are many tools needed which are not cheap. There is just so much to know that takes years to learn. Very cool that the knowledge is being shared and the skill passed on. In my small town there was only one guy who worked on clocks…
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#13kid me thought AI would replace people doing insanely precise hand work. turns out it replaced me writing emails, and this school's still going strong after 80 years. lmao we got played
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure but it’s also a microscopically small component of the country’s overall economy.
canada's economy is roughly slightly below Mississipi with increasing amount of migration from third world countries putting strain on its resources and with almost no plans other than to tax the already overstretched middle class its almost the exact dilemma in Western Europe except the only saving grace is military security is guaranteed by its larger and richer neighbor
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#16I believe this is exactly the kind of high-paying job that is difficult for AI to replace.
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#17I believe this is exactly the kind of high-paying job that is difficult for AI to replace.
Mechanical timepieces are a luxury item, and these students are essentially artists in training. Wrist time was solved in the late 1970's with the commoditization of quartz movements. These 'jobs' will get replaced by AI at approximately the same pace as your local sculptor.
Anecdotally, I see enough mechanical watches on wrists and in duty-free shops that I imagine there's enough of a pipeline there for at least one school. Much like vinyl records it doesn't appear to actually be going away even if it's superfluous.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mechanical timepieces are a luxury item, and these students are essentially artists in training. Wrist time was solved in the late 1970's with the commoditization of quartz movements. These 'jobs' will get replaced by AI at approximately the same pace as your local sculptor.
I don't know if watchmaking is one of them, but there are a bunch of traditional crafts which are actually approaching a danger point because there aren't enough up-and-coming acolytes in the discipline to replace them, even though the craft still enjoys enough popular support to have a thriving economy. Anecdotally, I see enough mechanical watches on wrists and in duty-free shops that I imagine there's enough of a p…
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#19I believe this is exactly the kind of high-paying job that is difficult for AI to replace.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure but it’s also a microscopically small component of the country’s overall economy.
canada's economy is roughly slightly below Mississipi with increasing amount of migration from third world countries putting strain on its resources and with almost no plans other than to tax the already overstretched middle class its almost the exact dilemma in Western Europe except the only saving grace is military security is guaranteed by its larger and richer neighbor
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-canada-would-rank-as-th...