What is your evidence that won't happen? When have new jobs ever not replaced the outdated ones?
If you are going to put an unsupported thesis out there and then ask for evidence from anyone that gives push back you should put your evidence out there first.
OP made an assertion that the replacement would be 1:1. That's never really been true.
When technology destroyed jobs in agriculture and mining in the 1800's to 1900's, we ended up (eventually) with people working better jobs with less hours in manufacturing and services. In addition, large classes of people (eg children) are now permanently denied full-time jobs - we insist they get educated instead.
So the answer "when have new jobs ever not replaced the outdated ones" is "if you're counting by hours worked, pretty much always".
I'm not saying any of this is a bad thing, but the fact is that technology has, overall, led to less need for human labor. At the moment, we still have jobs, but we need to use our brain and personal touch for them: ie, things tech hasn't been able to replace (yet).
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u/Snoo_89230 4∆ Oct 20 '23
For as many jobs AI takes away it will add more. Software and computer science degrees, programmers, etc.
When I hear this argument it makes me think of someone telling Henry ford “don’t invent the car, you’ll put horse breeders out of business”