> I mean... we did put nearly all the horses out of a job. Ditto oxen and other beasts of burden.

Don't forget farmers. Most americans were farmers in the early 1900s. Today it's about 1%.

Sure, jobs were eventually created for the unemployed farmers but "robots taking all the jobs" was a cataclysmic event in the early 1900s. You could argue it was the driving force for much of the 20th century. WW1 was primarily a result of european and american societies having excess population to "thin out". The excess population was also a reason for the anti-immigration movement that dominated the first half of the 1900s.

"Robots taking our jobs" isn't the end of the world. But it can be very painful.