[WMarshal]

Everybody calm down. Nobody weeps for the carriage builders that went out of business with the arrival of the automobile. As mature industries become more efficient and needless workers the excess labor will allow new technologies and professions to grow and replace the lost jobs.

The way all these Cassandra's and Chicken Littles bleat makes you wonder why we are not all hunter gatherers in an cave sitting around a fire picking parasite off one another like monkeys.

[Ozark Tom]

1.2 trillion bbl. oil recoverable from sands found in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, with a newly proven solvent technique (derived from citrous). No water required to liberate +99% of oil from sand. Clean sand made available for sale after process. Break-even, depending on source information, quoted at $28 to $32 per bbl. Virtually sulfur and heavy metals free, a direct refinery replacement for Venezuelan heavy crude. Should be some good paying jobs in there somewhere.

[Cronos]

it's different

The reasons it is different are:

1. it's not just carriage builders - it is wide swathes of industries and jobs across the entire population
2. The pace is too fast - the carriage makers still had a few years or decades to fade away
3. the changes are too different - think of a mobile phone manufacturer being upended by the smart phone world.

this is not the same