I don’t understand the “it’s different this time” argument. Replace “AI” with “steam shovel” or “sewing machine” and you have the same conversation from 150 yea

I don’t understand the “it’s different this time” argument. Replace “AI” with “steam shovel” or “sewing machine” and you have the same conversation from 150 years ago, when some people predicted that by now we’d have no work to do. Which made perfect sense to them in a time when most people worked in manual labor and agriculture, just as people work in offices now.