[astrange]

There's no reason to believe AI or any other automation displaces human labor (esp in a way that causes unemployment). And even less reason to believe it already has.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/american-workers-need-lots...

It seems to be a myth caused by anxiety about high unemployment in 2010, but we're no longer in that world.

[paulsutter]

Ask horses if machines can displace jobs for whole categories of workers. Or ask neanderthals if it’s possible to have one’s role replaced by a higher iq substitute

[astrange]

Horses aren’t workers, they’re horses. They didn’t ask to participate in the economy in the first place.

[_dain_]

Nobody asked me whether I wanted to participate in the economy either, yet here I am.

[trention]

The affirmative answer to that ask was implicit in the first employment contract you signed. So, unless you'd claim that horses can give implicit consent by accepting grain from a human, the equivalency fails.