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idapitbwidiuatabip OP t1_iszocj5 wrote

> yeah, just like when all that other automation resulted in mass unemployment

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS15000000

Displacement is rarely rapid. But to say humans haven't been displaced even in our lifetimes is patently illogical.

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plummbob t1_iszxi55 wrote

From 1950 to 2000 there was no automation? Wut

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idapitbwidiuatabip OP t1_iszyjg4 wrote

I didn't say that...

Did you hit your head?

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plummbob t1_it06ks8 wrote

If people are being "displaced" by automation (and by extension, trade, since they are functionally the same), why is the participation rate rising for 50 years? shouldn't it be falling?

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idapitbwidiuatabip OP t1_it08ros wrote

You have to factor in women increasingly entering the workforce between 1950-2000, and the Baby Boomers becoming working age in the 60's.

But obviously, jobs have been displaced by automation in that time.

You see examples daily.

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