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Given that the number of people in agriculture declined from 90% to 10% over the past 200 years or so, I'm less worried about disruption like this. People are remarkably retrainable, and just because current jobs no longer exist doesn't mean we won't create new ones out of thin air (like marketing, or Youtubers, or film lighting specialists).



How much of that would be due to the fact that we increased productivity on essential goods which inevitably benefitted everyone to some extent? It may be very different when a large portion of the jobs being destroyed are mostly useless to the productivity to start with.




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