In the anglo-saxon world, I have not seen significant successful program since the industrial revolution that has helped or softened the impact of a new process

In the anglo-saxon world, I have not seen significant successful program since the industrial revolution that has helped or softened the impact of a new process on an affected lump of people[1]. The weavers were left to rot when the automatic looms came in. (there were in flanders east england and northern france incredibly rich and influential class) Furniture makers were left to rot when steam power tools came in Farm labourer were left to starve when steam threshing/harvesting came in. enclosure was another tragic note in england. The green shirts were lobbying for "a share of the domestic profit" in the 20s-30s, in the 60s they were convinced that we were going to be working 2 hours a day by now, with robot servants cooking and cleaning for us, and no-one would be living in poverty. Even Orwell has written on this. Instead we see productivity in the western[2] world dropping. Meaning for every human hour worked we make less money. because I suspect in part to the rise of servant-as-a-service jobs(food/shopping delivery/cleaning/elderly care etc etc) all of which are long hours and low paid. [1] well, DDR everyone had a job, but lived in permapovety and were likely to be disappeared if you spoke out. [2] specifically the US and UK, who appear to be snorting financial inequality by the metric fuckton