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Tbh, if AI was freeing up labour and people would still get the same pay without having to work, nobody would complain. The issue is that people who's work got "freed up" don't get paid.
I think the dragon is a billionaire and is tricking the knight into destroying jobs
Chad luddite
Well most get hired back with the same amount of work at lower pay.
that's the same thing the textile loom did.
the difference is that when the textile loom was invented, industrial revolution just started and cities weren't built yet. Today, they are, and since growth generates the majority of human labor, you're facing a huge unemployment crisis in the next decades.
...what? the city of Rome had a million inhabitants around 0AD
yeah and then it fell and then the medieval ages started where you only had buildings made of stone if they were either fortresses for the rulers or monasteries/churches. and then the great fire of london happened in 1666 and people realized it's a stupid idea to build cities of wood and rebuilt everything in stone. that's what i was referencing when i said that "cities weren't built yet" at the very start of the modern age.
rome was one of many million-inhabitant cities at the time. baghdad, beijing and chang'e, for example.