alt Hacker NewsMore food chains keep opening up even when there is plenty of food available. The pie just gets bigger. Every tech shift was supposed to "end work" and yet here we are, busy with jobs that didn't exist 20 years ago.
The real issue isn't jobs dying. It's who gets the money from all this and whether new needs show up fast enough to give people something to do. With software we don't really know the limit yet, unlike food where your stomach tells you when to stop.
In the long run transitions like this work out and new jobs show up, but the people who had the old jobs don't always make the jump or keep equivalent pay.
Could be it shakes out in a generation or two, of course.