There's plenty of people out of work from industrial jobs and it didn't tip the world to revolution. It simply increased alienation which was a boon to the owning class. Alienation is a thing to be feared by the working class but apparently not by the owning class.
Automation is also a thing to be feared by the working class but which the ruling class greets again and again with indifference because so long as they aren't literally starving it doesn't matter what the working class don't like.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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