This article is a very interesting example of capitalization on the Lump of labour fallacy. Two examples made it very obvious: 1. there's only one diagram, an

This article is a very interesting example of capitalization on the Lump of labour fallacy. Two examples made it very obvious: 1. there's only one diagram, and it looks catastrophic. the article is designed to give the reader the impression that there is a catastrophe going on, by hiding the counterpart (that is, jobs created in the meanwhile) 2. cleverly, what the article doesn't show, it describes, in ridiculous terms: > from the point of view of, say, a 10th century farmer, over > 90% of the jobs we do now are effectively made up–make-work > stopgaps that simply prove, in the words of Mark Twain, that > "civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary > necessaries." so, 90% of the jobs that didn't exist in the 10th century are essentially... vanity.