> automation meant that workers could move into non-automated jobs, if they were skilled enough. That wasn't even true in the past; or at least, may true in th

> automation meant that workers could move into non-automated jobs, if they were skilled enough. That wasn't even true in the past; or at least, may true in theory but not in practice. A subsistence farmer in a rural area in Asia or Africa finds the martket flooded with cheap agri-products from mechanized farms in industrialized countries. Is anybody offering to finance his family and send him off to trade school? And build a commercial and industrial infrastructure for him to have a job? Very often the answer is no. And that's just one example (Though rather common over the past century).