[pryelluw]

Yes, the horse will take your job.

Yes, the written word will take your job.

Yes, fire job take.

Yes, the automobile will take your and the horse’s job.

Yes, we’re all doomed. Might as well go back up the trees and start hollering.

[tavavex]

Automation in the past was just about changing what was in the human's hands. Technology improved, people got faster, but there was still a balance. The people who owned the machines and the factories couldn't and didn't want to operate them, and had to employ others.

Now they're threatening us with total automation. In their dreams, we're not the people riding horses who now get to drive shiny new cars. We are the horse. If that dream is possible with the current technology, they will stop at nothing to achieve it.