[RobertoG]

There are strong arguments in the "this time is different" side.

When jobs are lost because technology, the new jobs are created in fields where technology can't compete. Until now that was intellectual work.

[peacetreefrog]

To me, it's a lack of imagination -- not the ability to imagine the kinds of work people will be doing in 100 years (which is very difficult), but the lack of empathy/ability to get out of the here and now. In 1800's over half of US workers were in agriculture, today it's under 2%. If you were to tell a farmer that in 1900 they'd freak out, very similarly to how this guy's freaking out today.