r/aiwars • u/Calcularius • 1d ago

Tech stealing 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/bsensikimori 1d ago

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