{"id":103687,"date":"2020-03-12T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T01:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/if-this-era-of-automation-mirrors-the-past-were-in-trouble"},"modified":"2020-03-12T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T01:04:43","slug":"if-this-era-of-automation-mirrors-the-past-were-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/if-this-era-of-automation-mirrors-the-past-were-in-trouble","title":{"rendered":"If this era of automation mirrors the past, we\u2019re in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-this-era-of-automation-mirrors-the-past-were-in-trouble2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the case of the Industrial Revolution, people\u2019s lives didn\u2019t improve for seven decades,\u201d Frey says. \u201cThat\u2019s two generations. I think we need to be very concerned about some of these short-term effects on people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frey says for seven decades wages were stagnant, food consumption decreased and \u201cpeople\u2019s living standards deteriorated.\u201d The economy was doing quite well, but most of the workers weren\u2019t seeing the benefits of that economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause people\u2019s living standards deteriorated, people rioted against mechanized factories. The Luddites are often portrayed as these irrational enemies of progress, and to some extent, that\u2019s right if you take a very long term view,\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The case against the flawed argument that automation won\u2019t be so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the case of the Industrial Revolution, people\u2019s lives didn\u2019t improve for seven decades,\u201d Frey says. \u201cThat\u2019s two generations. I think we need to be very concerned about some of these short-term effects on people.\u201d Frey says for seven decades wages were stagnant, food consumption decreased and \u201cpeople\u2019s living standards deteriorated.\u201d The economy was doing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}