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> if the same circumstances are repeated across a large number of industries I have to be worried when a large number of people are made effectively unemployed and unemployable in a short period of time.

You were just complaining that you didn't want to think about what would happen if this "problem" occurred at a systemwide level. What would happen is not compatible with your worries.

If you're then going to insist that the cobbler's problem matters because it happens simultaneously to everyone else, you need to consider the systemic effects. At the system level, this problem cannot exist.




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