AI could make tax prep, coding and legal services as cheap as clothes, argues analyst
binarybits · x · 2026-09-20
In a discussion comparing 20th-century manufacturing automation (shrinking manufacturing jobs, growing services) to today's AI wave, binarybits argues AI will invert the pattern: previously hard-to-automate services like tax prep, programming, and legal services will become automated, extremely good, and as cheap as clothes and televisions.
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