Technological unemployment and doomerism aside, I think there's a big difference here - in the past, you've needed lots of capital to invest in those labour-sav

Technological unemployment and doomerism aside, I think there's a big difference here - in the past, you've needed lots of capital to invest in those labour-saving devices. A farm labourer couldn't buy a tractor, a dockerworker can't buy a crane. But a software engineer absolutely can buy access to AI services. I have no idea how this will end up, but it'll be different to before.