On: The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce

[bsder]

> A counterexample would be when looms increased employment in textiles.

I'm going to ask for a cite. Automation would have led to a resurgence of the textile industry in the US if that were the case.

Most of the textile mill towns are gone, never to return.

[inimino → bsder]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

It's the canonical story in the history of automation and jobs. You're one of today's lucky ten thousand :-)