Working paper traces how 20th-century farm automation reshaped human capital
carlbfrey · x · 2026-10-16
A new working paper, Wheels of Change: Agricultural Automation and Human Capital in the 20th Century, examines how the next generation adapted to large-scale agricultural automation, offered as an analogy for today's AI-driven disruption. Presented as a 14-post thread.
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