Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> Well, sort of. But it's already happened to secretaries,
> right? That's what voicemail/PIMs has done to that job.
> It's happened to a lot of manufacturing jobs - that's what
> automation has done. There's not any _conceptual_ difference
> between the two scenarios.
Other than the amount of education/training required to learn
to do the job that got replaced. A better analogy would probably
be the highly trained artisans who lost their jobs to assembly
line manufacturing.
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