alt Hacker News> jobs destroyed will be replaced with new jobs
Not for horses though, or at least not the majority of them. Some were kept as pets or essentially status objects. In this case we are the horses.
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voisin • today at 12:48 AM
> In this case we are the horses.
This is assuming the conclusion. The entire question is whether we are the horses or every other example of humans in the past who found other employment that was inconceivable previous to the technological revolution that rendered their old job irrelevant.
And glue, you forgot glue. Maybe we'll get the Matrix plot line where we become human glue. Or, uh, batteries.