alt Hacker NewsIts never immediately obvious. Computers put thousands of human calculators out of jobs. Now computers superpowered any and all physical modeling, molecule searches, etc. But, should we have decided eg astronomers or microscopists are required to have jobs, then we wouldn't have developed automated high quality optics, which themselves were required to commoditize computers. Almost all technologies somehow play a role directly or indirectly that existed before a new one for any new advance.
I think you're not really hearing my point. I'm not speaking about evaluating things just on the aspect of eliminating jobs.
I am saying that I would hate to automate away most joy or most things people find purposeful, even if it increases purpose or joy for some people.
We've already given up a lot of our social fabric recently with tech. I think it makes sense to be conscious and careful to not make it much worse.
It's my guess that delivery bots are a net add to well being.