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The machines that replaced the Luddites made it possible for a fashion industry to come into existence. That in turn created a couple orders of magnitude more j
by greggman 15y ago
The machines that replaced the Luddites made it possible for a fashion industry to come into existence. That in turn created a couple orders of magnitude more jobs than were displaced by the jobs lost by the Luddites
Similarly, the number jobs in existence around cars dwarfs the number of jobs lost from no longer using horses.
I'm sure there are other examples.
The problem is most articles complaining about the loss of one type of job only compare them to the direct effects (loss of cloth maker jobs vs maintenance of cloth making machine jobs). It's never that simple.
- randomdata 15y agoSimilarly, the number jobs in existence around cars dwarfs the number of jobs lost from no longer using horses. Some 90% of the population worked on farms before the horse was displaced. The automotive industry is significant, but not anywhere near that significant.
- mseebach 15y agoYes, the true benefit of automating and scaling agriculture was the freeing up of vast swathes of the population for being factory workers, thus enabling the industrial revolution. Which was that significant.