The fear of job loss has been a recurring panic for hundreds of years since the original onset of machinery such as the mechanical loom. Mark Andreessen also addressed this in his piece, Why AI Will Save the World. I agree wholeheartedly that economies aren't some basal set of X amount of activity and that if that activity takes less labor, there's going to be nothing for people to do. Markets will always fill in gaps in ways that are totally unanticipated. It would take a willful denial of watching the last decade of politics to actually make such an argument.

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