> technology has always lead to a net increase in jobs because it adds so many more layers to the economy. another meaningless blanket statement made by blanket statement makers. the only thing that matters here is if increased throughput would create as many high-paying jobs. i don't think it would, and i'd have to see some good evidence to show that it would.   another blanket-statementer. at some point automation actually does remove jobs from entire sectors of the economy. it's not always good or always bad. the choice for longshorement was either to fire 100,000 highly-paid americans and automate, or automate and get like a 2% cost reduction. it wasn't worth the cost reduction because the jobs were high-paying and would not be found elsewhere, where are the longshoremen gonna work that pays as much? compared to their current job even a factory job would be considered a mcjob. you can automate and industrialize smartly so the least amount of people get hurt as possible and it's gradual, or you can just say > it always helps so just do it lmao
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