To elaborate on what damnorgonian said, those cars are all lighter than the 2000lb (I think) minimum to really qualify for a record.

No because the reason people don't do care jobs is because they don't pay nearly enough to change adult diapers and the like. The pay won't differently be going up. More people may take the care job after AI, but not for a good reason. It will be because the $30/hr jobs are all gone and not they have to do a care job to make $22/hr.

Because the robots will be for heavy jobs. Not the Walmart door greeter job that the elderly are doing.

Ok my comparison was to 1950 and I got the wage wrong, it was 75 cents in 1950. The point still stands that living has gotten disproportionately more expensive compared to inflation since then. I don't know what else could be false. There is even a name for changes being brought about by CEOs desperate for profit... Enshittification is all around us. Also you don't have to be a math wiz to see that the only way Microsoft is ever going to get the billions back that they have invested in AI is if they cut employees and their customers pay them to cut their own employees. But you don't want to believe it. You believe replacing humans for manual labor and replacing humans for all labor is the same thing. Go on denying it if it helps you sleep at night.

Yet by insisting you have a patched phone you are still playing right into their hands. It's not really that important for a regular person.

Then the answer is to lower prices of American products and raise pay.

I'm hoping someone does a study on all those wasted seconds waiting for a spreadsheet to load or going into a browser and having to login because the function is only available in a web app. I'm pretty confident we would find a lot of the reason for the first world lack of productivity they keep complaining about. How much are you going to want to work if you get figuratively punched in the face every time you open a spreadsheet?

Motorola cheap phones still manage to have headphone ports.

Yet your theory doesn't hold weight because as far as I can see there is no reason other than image to buy an iPhone ever.

Most people have no idea how many updates they are getting and don't care. I would be surprised if length of updates had anything to do with purchases aside from maybe a 2% highly cautious (and probably paranoid) crowd.

Also companies can't grow forever but their CEO's are expected to grow it anyway. They cannot allow AI to fail, because soon getting rid of most of their employees will be the only way to show financial growth.

The difference is that when combines were invented there was plenty of room for every company to grow in many ways. Big companies bought up small farms and became more profitable through economies of scale. They managed the number of people working for them but decreasing labor costs were not the main focus. Also labor was cheap because housing/food/transportation were much cheaper relative to the average wage than today. A grocery bagger who made 25 cents an hour back then could live much better than someone making the equivalent $13 per hour today. Look at Facebook, making billions on social media but still making desperate attempts to get VR and smart glasses going. All the farms are now bought up but companies still have to make bigger profits year over year. CEOs are desperate for pennies these days. The only thing they can do is focus on cannibalizing themselves. This is why there is so much excitement for AI from large corporations. They see it as an out for an issue that they have been fighting for a long time. AI can only be profitable if it means companies can dump employees.. Let that sink in in the context of the CEO lying awake at night thinking about how to find more profits. AI will not be allowed to fail because for a lot of executives this is their only chance to make their boards happy. I'm sorry I don't have better news, but I'm just the messenger.

They won't, that's the problem. Case in point, I recently got quicken to analyze all my finances and I found out that my bank will only give me a downloadable sync file with three months of data. Since quicken to bank syncing has been a thing for at least 30 years I can assume that three months I can ever get from my bank and I want to analyze at least a full year cycle. i ended up using AI to build a scanner for my pdf statements but at least with something like this people would have access to all the transaction history in the banks website which is over a year.

Farms never incorporated technology so they could hire fewer workers. They employed technology to produce more with the same number of workers. We have long topped out on that. Companies now look to hire fewer workers to raise profits.

I meant that it will be sad how few people there are.