That job destruction is a consequence of policy and you are just looking at the US. Jobs weren't destroyed, they were moved. They might have even been multiplied. Those numbers only measure jobs in one place. But globally these jobs multiplied around the world.
So the 10k employee factory in the US became a 100k employee factory in china. For example.
Poverty around the world has been reduced in the last 100 years from 60% of the population in 1950 to less than 15% in 2017. That destruction is greatly because the expansion of manufacturing around the world as the countries with most growth has been countries with a growing manufacturing.
As for the US (and Europe) despite the doom and gloom narrative has been great as far as economic growth has been thanks to tech. From dot com bubble to web 2.0, to mobile revolution, to SAAS/cloud development, there has been more and more diversity in the job marketplace.
AI like most data innovation will just make new markets and new ways to make money. The switch from physical things to digital things will just accelerate and the money behind it will multiply around the world.
Right now there is a whole slew of AI frameworks and AI agents like ElizaOS, Boltz, Agent Zero, n8n competing for AI dominance. My point is that talent will be there and come from everywhere in the world.
Going back to manufacturing is that nobody had this reaction when 3D printing took over and made it easy to manufacture things like machinery parts and houses from almost anywhere. Just like the printing press and the people opposing it, mainly religious people like Mormons in the US and Muslims in the middle east.
I think AI is getting a similar treatment like click n mortar destroying the brick and mortar, open source being a cancer of the industry and Bitcoin being rat poison and a scam. So yeah I am calling it stupid.
If AI was uber, you'll be like those taxi drivers claiming taking people around on their own car is illegal and the government should ban it. Or the banks saying Bitcoin should be banned.
