I think most would agree that eliminating these agriculture jobs was a very good thing, lowering food prices and allowing the workforce to expand into industries that could not have been imagined at the time.
Please tell me how driverless trucks or any other modern form of automation is any different? Sure they will displace human workers, but Austrian economics (correctly) tells us this is a good thing. We are all better off when there is less work to do.
Efforts by governments or left wing groups to hamper progress towards automation is counter productive and will make us all worse off in the long run.
I’m sorry you lost your job as a truck driver, but my great grandfather lost his job as a blacksmith.
@isco,
Austrian economics presumes an exchange of goods and services between humans. Once you replace humans by AI-enabled computers and robots ... all bets are off. It's like trying to apply the rules of checkers in order to play chess.
Check out this article and series of links between @cryptogee and myself and tell me why I'm wrong. And btw: I used to run a hedge fund ... I'm most definitely not a lefty.
https://steemit.com/ai/@quillfire/killing-off-cryptogee-s-fantasy-girlfriend-is-ai-even-possible-in-non-biological-entities