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LinkPizza posted...

Just because it's happened al through history doesn't mean it's good or ok. Murder as also happened all throughout history, as well... I know that's an exaggeration, but it basically means that just because something has always happened doesn't mean it should continue to happen... And when all those things became automated, or had something make their job obsolete, they lost their job, which means they lost their income... Which is the problem...

Do you suggest we get rid of alarm clocks, refrigerators, elevator buttons, bowling pin placers and ball returns, street cleaners, word documents/printing shouldnt have been invented? Maybe but probably not, as they all had a great upside to them and peoples current jobs depend on them.

Do you suggest we stop making new inventions? Lets go further back to inventions that cost a huge number of jobs (and youve addressed just because its happened, doesnt mean it should again). Airplane. Cars. Batteries. Light Bulbs. Vaccines. Printing Press. Calendars. Compass. Wheels.

Should the next thing in this line not be made for the disruption itll cause? Should we say life is good enough, the status quo among people is fine, stop trying to make life easier?

LinkPizza posted...

The ones that stop taking all the jobs away... Many people need those jobs...

Thats pretty much all of the technology. And if you want to do that...then you have to remove the jobs of the people whose jobs it is to make the new technology. People end up changing jobs or reskilling.

The problem is also...everyone has to subscribe for the philosophy of no new tech and really crack down on those who make it. Efficient companies will drive inefficient companies out of business unless theres something the inefficient companies can give (like the feeling of exclusiveness or moral superiority or a unique experience), and then jobs will be cost by NOT adopting the new technologies.