Leftists in another question say its bad that people have quot;lost jobsquot; to innovation and that innovation over the past several hundred years hasn't actually made us much more prosperous. So should we follow those leftists' lead and undo all of this horrible innovation from the past several hundred years? That would create a lot of jobs, right?
Most of these improvements were machines that replaced back breaking labor, not a computer A.I. algorhythem that replaces 50 human brains all at once. Plus the rate of change was fairly linear and not exponential - leading to massive upheavals in the employment market. It's one thing to see a steam thresher, and a guy say.. oh.. I better think about being a machinist.. to a totally different ball game - a lawyer seeing an A.I. routine sort thru a thousand documents in a minute or two and fish out the damning evidence - something it would take a lawyer team a week to do. It takes 6 to 8 years of post secondary education to be a lawyer.. it takes a couple of weeks vocational training to be a machinist repairing a thresher.
Wow...that's a good question. I would say yes because some of the innovations aren't really that essential even though they may be a bit more convenient.
It's always been my dream to clean horse crap from the streets. The invention of the automobile took this job opportunity away.
Leftists are more prone to be Luddites. That's true.
BHO would outlaw big excavators an hire a million union workers with tea spoons if he could.
