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Will AI replace Lightbulb Repairman jobs? · Latest report #5ckvpbza
Your job has already expired
long ago
Already deprecatedYou are a professional at fixing things that cost less than pennies.
Master of fixing things that nobody wants anymore.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Why repair what costs nothing to replace?
ow.youAI▸ BULB-GONE V1.0▸ RARITY · RELIC▸ DEPRECATED · LONG AGOAI's Special Power
recycles your entire inventory into landfill dust
You spend your days attempting to re-solder fragile tungsten filaments inside glass vacuum-sealed bulbs that were never meant to open.
The one thing AI can't do
You have steady hands for tiny wires that exist only in a museum.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
1920
Mass-produced cheap glass bulbs make individual repair work economically impossible.
1950
Solid-state lighting renders your soldering skills and vacuum pumps entirely useless.
1980
New regulations ban the sale of dangerous, homemade repaired lighting equipment.
2005
Nobody remembers that lightbulbs were once considered a repairable hardware item.
Already
The final lightbulb repair shop closes to become a coffee bar.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 99.3%
Zero today
Bulbs repaired
0.10 USD
Cost of a new bulb
12 percent
Survival rate of glass
Your severance
A lifetime supply of dead incandescent bulbs.
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