Weren’t we making the same arguments with weavers in the early 1800s and with the assembly line? Same story, different century. The auto made horse traders an

Weren’t we making the same arguments with weavers in the early 1800s and with the assembly line? Same story, different century. The auto made horse traders and blacksmiths redundant, automated weaving looms made weavers redundant, high yield farming made many small farmers redundant — yet worldwide poverty is lower than it has ever been, unemployment rates are fairly constant. New industries form when others decline. Who would have thought in 1920 that there would be an entire industry centered around home recording technology or that car alarms would be a thing or that home automation installers would exist? Everyone always thinks that their age is the pinnacle of technological achievement — only to be proven wrong within a single generation. This clamor for UBI and sky-is-falling fear is textbook Ludditeism. Identical arguments were presented by the Luddites, yet everyone can agree that England was a pretty rotten place for normal people in the early 19th century.