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Export-led growth did 3 things: earned hard currency, employed huge numbers of people, and made those workers steadily more productive by doing the work. High revenues alone aren't enough if fewer and fewer people are employed by that industry, as I wrote in my last post.

Data labeling is a common suggestion. It's a job *created by* AI. But this is prone to wage competition; Filipino rates on some projects dropped from $10 a task to <$0.01. And demand is shifting up the skill chain to experts like lawyers, doctors, etc. in high income countries

Another is agriculture - people need food, and AI is not growing it. But demand for food is capped, so when productivity rises, workers leave farming. And the real money is in the branding and marketing; farmers capture about 6.6 cents of every chocolate dollar.