Originally Posted by
Creotor
I was mostly referring to horses as animals (coupled with some wheels) which could haul a significantly larger amount of... anything an average human. People may not have been outright losing jobs because of that back then (not sure what kind of jobs there were shortly after the invention of the wheel), but it certainly did take away a good amount of labor.
Something similar goes for the trains.
And I'm sure there were some individuals who indeed complained about trains taking their jobs, one way or another. They just haven't posted that on MMO-Champion because they've been dead for a while.
Why do I need to "name one other time in history where population growth was explosive and many jobs were being automated and stopped requiring human labour"?
Did I say there was "one other time in history where population growth was explosive and many jobs were being automated and stopped requiring human labour"?
What I said is that this kind of thing (people losing work because something appeared that did that work much better than them and for a smaller price) has been happening during the whole of the past. No, not the EXACT same thing, as your question would make it seem, but the same concept, principle. The horses and trains bit was supposed to take care of that, but oh well.
In addition to this, computerization of many trivial tasks has been foreseen decades ago. Not exactly the same way it turned out, but pretty damn close. This wasn't unexpected, no need to act like this news is a proverbial sack of bricks over our heads.