When robots take routine middle-class jobs, those workers drop out of the workforce

[TheGreatParis]

@Medievalist

The thing that skeeves me about pre-agricultural society is parasites. I mean sure, agriculture brings in slavery, tooth decay, and a host of other ills, but eventually after 4 or 5 thousand years of territorial war and gender oppression you get anthelmintics, which means no more squirmy things coming out of your bodily orifices and waving at you.

It’s funny you should write that. I’ve thought almost exactly the same thing.

The elimination of internal parasites seems to be the only equivocally good thing humans have ever achieved.