Re:The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation
by aninhumer on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:36AM
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>Right, which is why it's silly for us to look at the technology we have today and say "welp, that's the end of human employment."
And why it's also silly to look at the past and say "meh it worked out last time, everything will be fine".
It's a lot more than 100 years. The invention of the scientific process, the printing press, the popularization of steel and before that, bronze, heck even the invention of agriculture radically changed human societies by increasing individual productivity and enabling specialization.
> People just a few hundred years before that could not have predicted anything about modern employment.
Right, which is why it's silly for us to look at the technology we have today and say "welp, that's the end of human employment."