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Luddites also complain about disruption, you know

Luddites were complaining about having their lives upended and being thrown into generational poverty. That is what wide-scale "disruption" looks at the receiving end.

True, but I think in the end people were better off with automation. You know a lot of people were suffering even when they were fully employed.

That's the key insight that's missing in most of the automation/employment discussions.

Yes, absolutely, in the end people were better off with automation. But these particular people - and their families and children - were not.

And we run the risk of fall into that lost generation under AI.

But hey, 50 years later things might work out, that is if past performance guarantees future results when it comes to adjusting to employment shocks.

It seems obvious then that the answer is supporting the much smaller displaced people, not stopping progress for the entire population (and future generations).

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