Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Patrick Carroll
“Walsh’s concern about jobs being lost due to technological development is nothing new. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, people have been raising concerns that technology would ‘take jobs’ and leave many out of work. One of the earliest groups to raise these concerns was the Luddites, a 19th-century group of English textile workers who opposed the use of machinery in their trade because it was being used to replace workers. The term ‘Luddite’ has since become a pejorative for someone who opposes labor-saving technological advances — one that Walsh has clearly earned with this take. The issue with Luddism is that it gets in the way of economic progress. Technology is an immensely powerful tool for improving our standard of living, and much of the prosperity we enjoy today is a result of technological advances that replaced human labor with machine labor.” (05/07/24)
https://fee.org/articles/what-matt-walsh-gets-wrong-about-ai-and-work/