Nothing new, look at agriculture for example. Few would want to trade today’s farming productivity for a life of dawn-to-dusk hard work our grandfathers had to do just to subsist. As one grain farmer told me, he works like hell for a fewvweeks in the spring and fall, and sits in the coffee shop in between.
The challenge before us is how to harness the power of automation to create new value and new prosperity. The clock doesn’t go backwards.
I agree.
Lots of people were put ‘out of work’ when farm machinery started to become more common. Higher paid “desk jobs” are being affected today but it’s the same phenomenon.