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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: neolib who wrote (47360)12/4/2017 1:04:40 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (2) of 362050
 
Exactly so. When the weavers lost to the power loom, their lives were disrupted, but more jobs were created for people to make use of all that cloth. When John Henry lost to the steam hammer, more jobs were created by all the America that steam hammer opened up.


It's not at all clear what happens when the accountant loses to AI, or the doctor or surgeon loses to it, or any other high skill profession loses out. It's very unlikely that they'll find new jobs created that pay anywhere near what their former job did, and they'll find themselves competing with low skill workers for a shrinking number of jobs. No illegal aliens needed.

We've never had competition with our brains before - a competition we're bound to lose. I've already lived through it. As a chessplayer, I competed with and beat or drew chess programs in tournaments in the 1980's. Until I couldn't, because they improved much faster than I could ever have. Now, I wouldn't even try.
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