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If we truly would get robots with AGI doing anything a human can do but cheaper|better|reliable, it's not comparable at all to history IMO.

It's not "a lot of jobs", it's "all jobs".

Isn't the point of AGI that it can basically do any job?

Entire towns got decimated when their jobs went away, such people fill their lives in drugs and vote for politicians who promise to bring back jobs.

So its either work or drugs? No wonder people choose drugs then.

And for those who don't get to find a job, there'll be a convenient WWIII to utilize themselves, just like there was WWI after the steam engine replaced a lot of jobs and WWII after tractors replaced even more.

WWI: -20 000 000 extra mouths to feed

WWII: -80 000 000 extra mouths to feed

WWIII: you extrapolate