Technology-driven widespread unemployment ("the robots will take all the jobs") is, like wizards who fly spaceships, a fun premise for science fiction but difficult to find examples for in economic history. (The best example I know is for horses.)
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"Haha Patrick you're not going to tell me bank teller employment is up since we made a machine literally called Automated Teller Machine are you." Bessen, 2015:pic.twitter.com/wf3eZfMiqd
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"Wait why did that happen?" Short version: the ATM makes each bank branch need less tellers to operate at a desired level of service, but the growth of the economy (and the tech-driven decline in cost of bank branch OpEx) caused branch count to outgrow decline in tellers/branch.
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It's not that there won't be any jobs. It's that millions of truck drivers made obsolete by self driving trucks cannot turn on a dime to become social media influencers etc. For every major economic shift there is a generation that is dislocated. See coal miners.
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How would you comment on all the chimney sweepers and piano tuners extinction? I bet all these people just died of starvation
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"AGI" is not comparable to "tech advances" in the context of human employment. The assumption is that an AGI does all and more than a human, including imaginative things humans supposedly do.
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