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>Workforce automation created millions of unemployed people in places far away from economic hubs, with no hope of employment in their hometowns or re-skilling
by razakel 10y ago
>Workforce automation created millions of unemployed people in places far away from economic hubs, with no hope of employment in their hometowns or re-skilling for the new roles, leaving them desperate.
So did the Industrial Revolution.
We may mock the Luddites for breaking the Jacquard looms. But do you know what the punishment for frame-breaking was? Execution.
The Industrial Revolution made way for the tertiary-sector economy. When the tertiary-sector economy becomes redundant, what is next?
There are no politicians talking about this.