t-For the Last Time, Robots Do NOT Cause Unemployment
Technophobia distracts people from real economic problems
Scott Winship | Brookings
Parts of the nation’s commentariat have been seized with a nasty bout of technophobia.
To judge from the symptomatic hand-wringing the epidemic is spreading, we are on the verge of mass unemployment as work becomes increasingly automated.
We might not have expected much resistance to the disease in earlier times, before evidence accumulated that the fears it inspired were irrational.