People keep bringing up other revolutions, but those never had the infinite regress properties of “if it gets a bit better, your job will be gone, too!”

What are all those other new jobs? What do you do with all the people who have been laid off?

There has been a dramatic shift in the role of agriculture in the US economy. As a share of it, in 1820 72% of workers were in agriculture, in 2017 this had shrunk to 1.6%. Tractors played a big role in this transition.

Robots are around the corner for the physical part.