“Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do?  It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that—in slow motion—is what the industrial revolution did to the workforce of the early 19th century. Two hundred years ago, 70 percent of American workers lived on the farm. Today automation has eliminated all but 1 percent of their jobs, replacing them (and their work animals) with machines. But the displaced workers did not sit idle. Instead, automation created hundreds of millions of jobs in entirely new fields.”

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/ff-robots-will-take-our-jobs/all/

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