That started with the Luddites. Who were entirely correct. Automation destroyed their - and a lot of other - jobs during the industrial revolution, and the new jobs that were created to replace theirs were of much lower pay (and required moving across the country, as the jobs relocated). It created massive problems of broken families, urban poverty of a sort that hadn’t been seen before, crime, pollution, etc. People point to the eventual state of English industry and jobs to suggest that the impact was all good, but that took generations - and the introduction of massive government programs for education and social safety nets (not to mention a captive market in the form of India, which saw its industries destroyed by British occupation).
/facepalm
The Y2K Bug was an incredibly real, incredibly dangerous threat whose consequences were only avoided by a fucking massive undertaking across the globe, with former programmers coming out of retirement to add to the workforce required to prevent disaster.
So if your point was that this is a very real, potentially disastrous issue that should be taken seriously and requires much work to avoid society-damaging consequences, then you made a great argument. But, oddly, that doesn’t seem to be your point…
