What do you mean? Have you seen switchboard operators? Surely internet packets displaced the phone companies!

What about most things that you own today? Surely the metals you come across the very electronic you’re typing away on didn’t come from a blacksmith?

I’m sure I could go ad nauseum but I hope you get my point. I’d believe you if you lived somewhere in the artic circle in a remote corner of that desert. But here you are on HN of all places!

Edit: typo

those jobs are already gone. the fact they were eliminated decades ago doesn't support the idea of accelerating joblessness through automation.