> I mean... we did put nearly all the horses out of a job. Ditto oxen and other beasts of burden. Exactly. The buggy drivers became tax drivers, the horses bec

> I mean... we did put nearly all the horses out of a job. Ditto oxen and other beasts of burden. Exactly. The buggy drivers became tax drivers, the horses became glue. The automobile was a great invention for the participants on the right side of that bell-curve, and absolutely horrible for the participants on the left side of the bell-curve. There's no guarantee, universal law, or dogmatic hit-the-brakes switch which will ensure that (without a major economic adjustment) further technological development won't put an ever-growing fraction of people to the left of the 'useful enough to be employable for a living wage' side of the bellcurve.