Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
The issue is that there's need to be something new this time, rather than an old section expanded. When service jobs are getting automated, what is next? I don't doubt that production and total wealth has gone up in the process, it's just that there's no default idea that the increased wealth by a job creates new jobs in a sufficient ratio to sustain full employment.
Luckily, we're not employed as oracles, so there's no need for us to try to predict the future. Attempting to do so will fail anyway.

But since this is what has happened in every change of production in human history up until this point, I see no reason why the same shouldn't happen this time.