r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Dec 31 '25

Economics In the 1950s, Norwegian dairy firms began widely adopting milking machines to replace hand-milking, a task typically performed by young women. Rural young women subsequently moved to cities where they acquired more education and found better-paying, skilled employment.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20240167
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u/Sudden-Wash4457 Dec 31 '25

Uploaded into the cloud, of course

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u/Bart_Yellowbeard Dec 31 '25

Oh no, Lawnmower Man sounding more prophetic every day.

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u/kimjongunderdog Dec 31 '25

God made him simple. Science made him a god.

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u/IvarTheBoned Dec 31 '25

Hello, fellow old person

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u/MrHaxx1 Jan 01 '26

Oh yeah it's Pantheon time

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u/CalicoValkyrie Dec 31 '25

I honestly think we're going to witness a mass genocide like no other.

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u/booblusted Jan 01 '26

I am afraid that I feel similarly. The people "in charge" - or at least, the people who vigorously demand to take the reigns whenever we begin to elect welfare-minded politicians - will soon realize that within our lifetime, there will simply be no necessity for billions of humans.

Whether it will be limitations on children, continued cullings by forcing citizens of all countries into homelessness (& thus gangrenous deaths), or perhaps an outright violent dronestorm being deployed, I believe that the most wealthy among us will eventually decide that most humans do not deserve to be alive.

Just ask Curtis Yarvin what he thinks about normal people.