And all the steel mill guys and the guys that built cars and the IT guys can mow lawns and make beds and pick lettuce and be happy and forget buying new homes, etc.?
We could all be laboring on farms churning our own butter too if we never allowed anything to happen that might make a job “go away.”
Investing in a job skill is no different than investing in a stock. You take a risk that there will still be a demand for it years down the road. If you lose money on a stock, you don’t beg the government to prop up that industry artificially to keep your stock price high.
There are countless people who have shifted from one industry into another when the job market changed. We’ve had booms in oil and fracking that have employed a lot of people.
But it’s not the government’s job to “protect” people from ever losing money on any investment or ever experiencing a change in the job market. Economic progress isn’t made by keeping everything static and making sure nothing ever changes. Our economy has changed drastically. We work to create goods and services to fill our needs. Both technology and outsourcing can help us meet those needs more efficiently and that’s a good thing. When you can suddenly buy butter at the store, you no longer need to churn it yourself and can instead spend your time making something else that you’ll now have in addition to the butter.