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    54 months ago

    It would not have been ethical with increasing populations and no means to scale up effectively to meet their needs. Individuals, sure, but not overall; technology has replaced people in specific situations, people who then went on to get employment in other areas.

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        24 months ago

        Looking at the bigger picture… layoffs happen all the time for many reasons. Overall, technology has not increased unemployment.

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          44 months ago

          layoffs happen all the time for many reasons

          Layoffs are the result of primitive capital being monopolized through enclosure and the local labor force being corralled into industries that generate more goods than the deflated economy can absorb.

          There’s no layoffs for yeomen farmers and independent craftsman. You only experience the phenomenon when land barons control the property and dictate how many people they wish to employ.