Slate Star Codex on Technological Unemployment

“Had we kept 2000-levels of productivity and applied them to 2010-levels of production, we would have required 20.9 million manufacturing workers. Instead, we employed only 12.1 million.”

slatestarcodex.com Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted To Know [I am not an economist or an expert on this topic. This is my attempt to figure out what economists and experts think so I can understand the issue, and I’m writing it down to speed your goin… (opens in a new tab)