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Do we also bemoan the loss of backbreaking agricultural jobs or tedious and dangerous industrial work that have been automated away?
by cycrutchfield 3y ago
Do we also bemoan the loss of backbreaking agricultural jobs or tedious and dangerous industrial work that have been automated away?
- tremon 3y agoWe do, similar to the mining towns of the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50069336 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50069336
- jprete 3y agoSomeone who was laid off from such a job and never got another one probably does, in fact, bemoan that loss.
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- pixl97 3y agoYes we do, search the term 'rust belt'. Agricultural jobs turned to automotive jobs that turned to no jobs and wide areas of depressed economic activity.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThere is no one “we”. Many groups of people gained from cheaper goods and services. Some groups of people lost from loss of income.
- realce 3y agoYeah there's gonna be a whole lot of "comparative advantage" coming down the pipe, but the winners will become fewer and fewer by the day.
- pixl97 3y agoAnd we shoved a million more people in prisons on that time frame, that are now an administrative burden on society. 'We' all pay for that.