Do you have any links to back that up? I'd love to use it in arguments if it's substantiated.
Well, that’s obviously hyperbole, but the logic is more or less true.
Economic history itself is your evidence: just consider how long run employment hasn’t changed in the last 1000 years, and yet people are more prosperous than ever.
It’s because we can do more with less time: ie. automation.
Do you have any links to back that up? I'd love to use it in arguments if it's substantiated.”
Don't hold your breath - because it is essentially both true and untrue.
Of course automation kills jobs. Every time something begins being done by a machine that used to be done by a human, a job has been killed. But what is another description for automation - how about ‘time and progress.’
The history of this planet is about time, and the progress that occurs during time. Horses took away the jobs of slaves that used to pull wagons. Cars took away the jobs of horses. Steam-shovels took away the jobs of hundreds of men using shovels. And of course shovels took away the jobs of thousands of men using spoons.
The whole process involves time, and the progress of time. As technology advances, the human race is supposed to get smarter and stay ahead. And there lies the rub.
Between the planned disintegration of to the family, school systems being turned into propaganda factories, and the sense of entitlement/unionism - the human race has stopped making progress - and technology hasn’t.
The resulting head on collision will be spectacular - and violent beyond belief.