Redundancy is the engine of progress

In the 18th century, 90% of Americans worked in agriculture to feed themselves and the nation. Today, it's around 1% . In the 1950s, there were hundreds of thousands of telephone switchboard operators . Today, they're all gone. There used to be well over a million professional typists too, but word processing largely killed those jobs as well. This is what progress usually looks like: redundancy. Technological advancement has always rendered some jobs unnecessary. That is literally the progre...