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I genuinely have no idea why everyone thinks that robots are going to completely replace people. Machines need money, upkeep, and people babysitting them too. Automation only changes the types of jobs and skills needed, it doesn't eliminate human jobs completely.
The lump of labour fallacy was applicable to horses for 2000 years, new inventions that improved efficiency increased their demand ever further until the internal combustion engine closed every remaining niche all at once. The same will happen to us, it's mathematically inevitable. It might not be LLMs that do it, but something will.
There was kinda that whole bit in between where all the unemployed workers crowded into cities and everyone died of cholera though...
I mean yes but not entirely sure how that relates to horses? Unemployed horses were simply sent out to pasture or shot I imagine.