it's about deprofessionalizing it so cheaper people can do a "good-enough" job that you can't charge high prices for your service. The loom and sewing machine

it's about deprofessionalizing it so cheaper people can do a "good-enough" job that you can't charge high prices for your service. The loom and sewing machine didn't eliminate the seamstress, it just impoverished the profession. It's like driverless trucks; what you'll actually see is mostly driverless outsourced and remotely monitored trucks where someone is making something like $1/day monitoring 5 trucks at once and switching it to remote control mode when needed. We've proactively organized our economy to produce these kinds of outcomes. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's the unquestioned assumptions of how we've collectively presumed it will be used.