I'll repeat the point: We have 250 years of experience of jobs disappearing to automation.
The counterintuitive result is an enormously increased living standard for regular people. It's hard to compute by how much, but economists who try come up with a factor of 20x to 30x.
I don't think modern society is in any way ready to reoptimize for the accelerating displacement that robotics and ai bring.
It's not the same thing, and we aren't ready for it, partly just because people don't recognize the difference between the two.
That era has lifted the greatest number of people out of poverty in history. Employment and income keeps going normally.
I agree that it's possible that this trend will break. But be aware that all through these 250 years, people have constantly predicted this, and always had plausible arguments for why "this time it's different".
Wait till the software engineering jobs are automated away.
>The free market isn't some singular entity that figures out problems before they arrive and sends us all an executive summary of its plan.
Obviously, which is why I think it's a good idea to have a few regulations in place so that we, as a society, might figure out our plan and how to make the transition a little less painful for those who have to suffer the consequences. Not that you argued against regulations in the first place but from your comments I assumed you and pm90 were of the libertarian kind.