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> people will quickly adapt

Which people are you thinking of? The 22yo who just got out of college? Or the 50yo whose entire career and experience are getting automated away? Is the idea that they'd all pick up Python in a couple weeks in some bootcamp if their expected careers didn't work out?

Dumb people exist -just as ugly people do- that already have employment problems. And education can't fix it, because there is only so much they are capable of learning.

As we do away with the easy dumb jobs, we condemn more people to poverty. We surely need to figure something out, specially if we are going to keep raising the bar.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken

- Bertrand Russell