https://fee.org/articles/automation-replaced-800-000-workers-then-it-created-35-million-new-jobs/?utm_source=FEE+Email+Subscriber+List&utm_campaign=d010f02649-MC_FEE_DAILY_2017_09_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_84cc8d089b-d010f02649-108353125 This is what happened with 'automated' weaving in the UK. Hand made textiles was a critical industry and the elite minds of the day predicted crushing unemployment. The opposite occurred.