Comment by EagnaIonat

It didn't kill everything. Some survived but not to the extent that it was.

> The clothing industry is radically different from back then but it's definitely not gone.

Small towns had generations of people who had learned skills in making clothing / yarn. To do the work you needed years of experience and that's all you knew.

Once the industrial revolution hit they hired low skilled workers that could be dumped at a moments notice. It made whole villages destitute. Some survived, but the far majority became poor.

That was one industry. We now have AI at a point to wipe out multiple industries to a similar scale.