> These people that were replaced didn't just go off and die. They found other more advanced work ... This almost never happens in real world. The next generat

> These people that were replaced didn't just go off and die. They found other more advanced work ... This almost never happens in real world. The next generations do benefit that. But the current generation is fucked. You wont retrain 40> years old truck drivers into anything that will pay even remotely the same. Most of them will be stuck doing minimal wage jobs somewhere, and be happy that they have them. (of course there are exceptions) I have seen that play out in ex communist countries, where whole swaths of jobs became obsolete over few years. It's been almost 30 years, newer generations have moved on somewhat, but there are still a lot of people that were better off before. Industrial revolution was great in general, but its effect on people also gave rise to communism (i am not defending it).