1) The advent of modern gardening and genetically modified crops. With increased efficiency, where will the extra farmers go?
2) The advent of computers. What will happen to books? The tree cutters? The people who ship the trees to the lumber plant?
I could go on and on about ANY technological advance in the last 200 years. I don't see how cars are any different that will bring "marxism or communism".
I can't believe how "taking away jobs" sort of argument against technological advancement keeps showing up over and over, despite being refuted every time.
That goes so far beyond anything we have any experience with that it's impossible to speculate. Every technological advance in history has been a labor saving device; a device that does everything as well as humans is no longer a tool, it's our replacement (i.e., strong AI).
>People have been retreating up the skill chain as technology has become more and more advanced.
The majority of jobs created by industrialization required less skill than previous jobs (e.g., farmers to assembly line workers).
Since industrialization, the skill required by good jobs not made artificially lucrative by unions has become more specialized and advanced. Whereas being good at manual labor has become less useful. That's what I meant by going up the skill chain - it's harder to replace thinking jobs with tech, so more recently, people have been trying to work in those.