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SoftwareMaven on Aug 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re ...

I bet there was a lot of gnashing going on in the 19th and early 20th centuries, too. People don't like to change, yet technology forces them to.

cpeterso on Aug 6, 2011 [–]

In the early 19th century, the Luddites protested (and destroyed) automated looms that could be operated by cheap, relatively unskilled labor.

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