You’re comments come across to me as condescending, argumentative (without being productive), actively hostile to other users, and so one-sided you sound almost

You’re comments come across to me as condescending, argumentative (without being productive), actively hostile to other users, and so one-sided you sound almost completely uninformed on the topic. All of which is unacceptable behavior on HN. That said you’re not totally off the mark, but comments like “It astounds me that people on HN think that eliminating jobs without any thought to the social impact” is why you’re getting down voted. How do you know now I or anyone else hasn’t given this thought? If you browse though old stories you’ll see tons of discussion on this topic. My point of view on this is “It’s too late. The genie is out of the bottle and no amount of trying to avoid job losses is going to be productive.” Instead we need to work towards making our gross economic output support everyone. If basic necessities are all provided for (such as though UBI or some other idea) then no one will care if jobs are lost because then people can focus on figuring out how to productively use their time rather than worrying about finding a shitty, or even non-shitty, job so their family can eat and stay out of the weather. And without that we’ll continue hemorrhaging jobs until we reach a critical point where there will be an honest to god revolution in the USA and things will be violently reset (not corrected).