The article is interesting, the headline is baffling. It seems to be claiming that it is possible to pay Indians a medium-single-figure daily wage (ie, $1,000/year) despite having 40% of the country working in the agricultural industry.
Great but that myth is and was of no real interest to anyone and isn't a very useful frame for the article. India still needs to move most of the population on to doing something more productive than inefficiently looking after plants. The goal is not 1 billion people living off slightly more than $1,000/year. The goal is living standards at least an order of magnitude higher if not several orders. That requires capital, not subsistence+ farming. Which, to their credit, is what the Indians seem to be focusing on.
Might be a better life than smelling exhaust gas and looking at screens for 3/4 of our existence. Then wake up and worry about AI eventually eating our jobs.
I take looking at screens in an office over breathing exhaust gases and pesticides any day. Working on a farm is hard work even in developed countries.
By the time most of India is at the level of development that their problem is looking at screens, the cars will be battery-electric.
AI has as much chance of taking your job as combine harvesters have of taking everyone's job that currently has one in India working on farms: 99%, maybe, but also 0%.
Great but that myth is and was of no real interest to anyone and isn't a very useful frame for the article. India still needs to move most of the population on to doing something more productive than inefficiently looking after plants. The goal is not 1 billion people living off slightly more than $1,000/year. The goal is living standards at least an order of magnitude higher if not several orders. That requires capital, not subsistence+ farming. Which, to their credit, is what the Indians seem to be focusing on.