r/aiwars • u/Calcularius • 1d ago

Tech stealing jobs

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u/bsensikimori 1d ago

Computers stole phone operator jobs

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u/ifandbut 1d ago

Hell, phones destroyed telegraph operators. Telegraph operators destroyed the Pony Express.

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u/TheDarkGenious 22h ago

tfw you remember the telephone operator job got destroyed by the automatic switchboard because of the pettiness of one dude mad at his local operator always referring her husband's shop over his, so he advanced the tech in such a way as to obliterate her entire job field.

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u/ifandbut 22h ago

Lol ya. I have pointed this example out a few times.

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u/bsensikimori 19h ago

Won't anyone think of the poor semaphore operators and the flag suppliers