[kypro]

Dumb. I was at an old mill recently and was learning about how workers protested when weaving jobs were being replaced by machines and they were losing their jobs due to human weavers being less efficient than the new steam-powered weavers.

This is why business with any financial sense wouldn't pay an artist for artwork anymore because it will be far far more expensive and take longer... Mills which didn't change with the time, according to the guy I was talking to failed and all the workers lost their jobs anyway.

The good news here is that like during the industrial revolution, soon loads of unproductive work will be automated away – coders, artists, accountants, lawyers, etc. And like during the industrial revolution this will result in huge profit increases and competitive advantages for businesses which adopt quickly. This isn't something any company should be sitting on the fence about.

While it's unfortunate people will lose their jobs we should remember that humans are still uniquely qualified for work where human interaction is valued – like service work. It's really only the inefficient knowledge work that will be automated away by AI, like how inefficient factory work was automated and outsourced out of developed economies over the last century.