[ccanassa]

My job as a dev is literary to automate human work.

My first job was to write C code for industrial machines that replaced humans doing manual work. Sometimes I even had to go watch them work so I could fully understand what they were doing.

In my second job as a developer, I wrote a Django application that automated away a whole department in the company. I saw 100 people getting fired due to a script that I wrote.

That was all happening in the third world country were I came from. These were real people getting fired, with families that depend on them. Most of them were already in poverty even before being fired.

These artists complaining sound like a very 1st world problem to me. I doubt that anyone actually "lost a job" because of this technology so far.