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>The agricultural revolution didn't drive mass unemployment when farmers were replaced.

Actually, it did. The labor oversupply crisis fueled the World War 1, which killed the bulk of the displaced agriculture workers. Had everyone been productively employed, there would be no one left to fight the war.




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