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This argument keeps coming up. The problem is this is based on exactly one data point. So saying "historically..." is hardly relevant! The automation that is
by wvenable 12y ago
This argument keeps coming up. The problem is this is based on exactly one data point. So saying "historically..." is hardly relevant!
The automation that is happening now has never happened in the history of the human race. You simply cannot extrapolate from past events and say it'll be like that again.
- poikniok 12y agoIt is more based on thousands of years of data. Every generation likes to think that they are unique, and that "this time everything is different". In reality life will go on.
- wvenable 12y agoI have no doubt that life will go on but that isn't the argument here. The argument is that while automation kills jobs in one area but create more in another. There's no logical basis for thinking that's a consistent pattern. Large scale mechanical automation is only a few hundred years old.