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Your comment just shows the paroquialism of your knowledge of economics. Were the keelboat men affected personally when they lost their jobs to the steam boats?
by johnjames87 1y ago
Your comment just shows the paroquialism of your knowledge of economics. Were the keelboat men affected personally when they lost their jobs to the steam boats? Yes. Did the benefits of the steam boats (10 times faster, can travel up and down river and carry more cargo) benefit everyone - including the keelboat men? Also yes. Economic growth will sometimes require pivoting of the economic agents' activities but they're always better off.
> Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean it will happen in the future
Say no more, let's ignore what always happened and go in the opposite way.
- palmotea 1y ago> Were the keelboat men affected personally when they lost their jobs to the steam boats? Oh come on man. The tech companies hope to create a technology that will automate the human intellect. I hope the fail, but we have to take the goal seriously. Don't talk to me about steam boats. >> Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean it will happen in the future > Say no more, let's ignore what always happened and go in the opposite way. How about you try to think about the this situation, this technology instead of essentially cargo culting and superficially reasoning "this is a technology and that was a technology 100 years ago, both technologies, so they'll both play out the same."