Recent AI discussions makes it almost certain that jobs would be affected. It makes me wonder what happened when suddenly humans were replaced by machines. Assuming a lot of jobs were lost was it that lots of people suddenly found it difficult to afford meals or was it not disastrous at all and was a smoot h transition? Can we compare it to today’s AI revolution in terms of adjustment with jobs?
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There’s a reason that they saying is around the turn of the century that people either had servants, or they were servants. People who weren’t farming (or who couldn’t compete with huge farms in the textile trade) moved into the cities where there were factory jobs, and there was a demand for domestic labor to do the upkeep on all the new mass-produced goods that people could now afford, even if they weren’t extravagantly Rich.
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