[fulafel]

It has. For example mechanization of argiculture in places where it didnt coincide with a manufacturing boom (latin america, india, africa) resulted in shantytowns and long term unemployment.

[BurningFrog]

Those are pretty dysfunctional economical and political systems.

In the industrialized world, old professions disappear all the time, and are replaced with new ones. I saw somewhere that it's about 2% per year.

[fulafel]

In a post-AGI scenario, a tech booster POV could be seeing the left behind parts of the populace the same way.