Is Technology Unemployment a Myth?

I think in any decision which involves the death of millions and millions or billions and billions of people, I want there to be a human in the loop. We certainly need to contend with it. The reason things worked out well during the Industrial Revolution was because the machines replaced our muscles. And then we educated ourselves and started working with our brains instead. Now we're building gradually machines that can compete our brainwork - leaving no place to go other than becoming massage therapists. But that said, it doesn't have to be a bad thing. If machines can produce everything we need, we can get a vastly larger economic pie. So everyone gets better off and has a sense of purpose than shame on