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hitssquad t1_j2n7s19 wrote

Reply to comment by Caldwing in In 1930s, Music Defense League launched a campaign against recorded sound in movie and live theaters, claiming that numerous musicians would lose their jobs if "canned music" was preferred over live recordings. by Profanion

> This makes more and more people superfluous.

Then global unemployment must have reached 100% 10,000 years ago, and stayed there: https://reason.com/2007/09/26/the-4-boneheaded-biases-of-stu/

###Make-Work Bias

> I was an undergraduate when the Cold War ended. I still remember talking about military spending cuts with a conservative student. The whole idea made her nervous; she had no idea how a market economy would absorb the discharged soldiers. In her mind, to lay off 100,000 government employees was virtually equivalent to disemploying 100,000 people for life.

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Caldwing t1_j2tmhan wrote

I'm not saying they don't have jobs I am saying those jobs themselves are a waste of time.

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