I think that this is a very reasonable point on it's face, but the knife only ever seems to cut one way. Do you have an example of a business that has meaningfully grown due to AI instead of the deluge of layoffs that get printed in articles every day?

I think people are reacting to what they DO see in real life, and the idea that it COULD result in more jobs... only seems to show up in discussions. I'm obviously not asking for an example the same scale as all the tech companies laying off 100,000s of people and blaming AI, but whatever proof has informed your opinion would go a long way towards supporting your point in a way that debating can't.

The world was fine aside from like the triangle shirtwaist fire and child labor and company scrip and all sorts of other horrors

factory workers don’t need craftsmen anymore ... The market for software, for example, is nearly unlimited

Enjoy your shitty and buggy IKEA software.

You ignore the abject human suffering that came in the wake of the industrial revolution. It ushered in, imediately after, a period of such misery it is abhorant to ignore.

is that why the Luddites decided to smash the machines? they must've been in an euphoric state from how good the industrialists were treating them so they decided to reward them wirh a free maintenance check using hammers.

bootlickers everywhere, man

You know batman having an unrerage sidekick wasn't even considered weird because they had orphans that age dying in factories