Comment by dataviz1000
2 days ago
Another good analogy is how calculators, people who performed mathematical calculations, were replaced by machines. Sure they were eventually put out of work, nonetheless, the mechanical and then electronic calculators eventually made entire industries so efficient it increased everyone's wealth and created new positions and jobs.
We will be fine.
> We will be fine.
No, we won't. Other people might be.
The new positions and jobs are for the new people. For those automated away half-way through their careers, there's at best competing for entry-level salaries with a much younger cohort freshly out of school.
It's something I see people consistently missing in the whole labor automation discussion space. Luddites didn't rise up because they hated the future either. They rose up because contemporary developments threatened to throw them specifically, and their families and children, into poverty, starvation and death.
Long-term social impact != immediate-term personal impact.