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I'm saying that when 90% of all jobs were in farming and those jobs were automated it didn't mean 90% unemployment. New kinds of job appeared to employ those pe
by crdoconnor 8y ago
I'm saying that when 90% of all jobs were in farming and those jobs were automated it didn't mean 90% unemployment. New kinds of job appeared to employ those people who would have gone to work in the fields.
The whole "oh but this time it's different because AI" argument is a load of bullshit. The disemployment effect is actually about 10x milder than it was when we came in off the fields and new kinds of job are created all the time.
- maxerickson 8y agoLaborers left farms for better jobs in factories. They weren't pushed out.
- crdoconnor 8y agoSmall landholders were pushed out by the enclosure movement.