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It's useful to look back in history: the automation of most of the work in agriculture over the last 10,000 years turned out to be mostly great in hindsight...
by greglindahl 7y ago
It's useful to look back in history: the automation of most of the work in agriculture over the last 10,000 years turned out to be mostly great in hindsight... but it was a lot slower than the pace of change today.
- maxerickson 7y agoThere also wasn't necessarily displacement. Much of the agricultural automation that occurred in the 19th century was a response to labor shortages as people moved to industrial centers for jobs that were more attractive than farm labor.
- crdoconnor 7y agoIn the UK people didn't move because the jobs were more attractive. They moved because the enclosure movement stripped them of land and they had nowhere else to go. They hated working in factories. There are pamphlets by early industrialists who advocated this as a way of dealing with labor shortages in their factories and the natural idleness of peasants.
- konschubert 7y agoI don’t think the industrial revolution was slower.