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If it can displace all of knowledge work the way that machines displaced manual labor, then the economy is pretty much fucked, right?


Is there no manual labor anymore? Was the economy fucked by the industrial revolution? It's hard to say how transformative it will be; we're all just kind of speculating.


Automation of manual labor has annihilated some communities in the united states


There are still tons of manual labor jobs, though. Machines did not displace all manual labor, as your earlier comment implied. And the economy was not fucked by automation.


You seem to be fundamentally failing to grasp how many communities were destroyed by the changes you're downplaying and how much that is a root cause for political instability you're living through in US.




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