The article is blithe about how we overcome economic dislocation. During the first industrial revolution, farmers were made obsolete and had to crowd into citie

The article is blithe about how we overcome economic dislocation. During the first industrial revolution, farmers were made obsolete and had to crowd into cities looking for wages. Children worked in factories and poorhouses. I don't know if this was worse than farm life, but the art of the period depicted it as such. Some people never recover from economic dislocation. They either abstain from having children because they sense how marginal they are, or they have families anyways and raise children with few opportunities. I am using genetic propagation as a measure of human success, which of course is arguable, but which means a lot to many people. More importantly if a human line dies out, there is no voice for it anymore. Such losses are silent and largely ignored by the historical record. So this economist is gravely undercounting the human suffering that technological change can bring.