“Such claims were made with the invention of the harvesting combine and the cotton gin.”
Both were part of a larger industrial revolution, not isolated things unrelated to that, and the creative destruction of some jobs in that revolution was less than the new kinds of jobs it helped create, which is not the case in this era’s information technology revolution.
the creative destruction of some jobs in that revolution was less than the new kinds of jobs it helped create, which is not the case in this era’s information technology revolution.
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That is the part where you are mistaken. Just like all the similar claims made in this line for dozens of decades.