I was around for the PC revolution. When I was a kid, there were huge typing pools. Gone. There were buildings with entire floors of draftsmen. Autocad and Versacad sent them packing. There were people whose only job was to file paper in cabinets. Every executive at VP and above had his own secretary at a desk outside his office. Your bank had a dozen tellers.

Everything was printed, and every printed publication or catalog employed an army of typesetters. What we're doing here, on Reddit? That was actually part of the classified section of the newspaper that someone had a job throwing into our driveways.

That's hundreds of thousands of people who had jobs in the late '70s and then didn't in the early '80s. And that's before the internet and cell phones blasted everything.

The AI shift may be coming a little faster, but not much. We think of the computer revolution starting in the '60s and going into the '90s, but when the 8086 hit the market, that shit came at us FAST.

Just like today, people made dire predictions that all those people being displaced would have no jobs, and said things like, "What will IBM do when there's nobody left with any money to buy their computers?"

Yet we're still here, still working, still buying, still saving. Still doing just fine, while Ned Ludd weeps.

So yeah, there will be some displacement. I think truckers in particular should be making plans. Because when the shift to self-driving trucks happens, that's going to be like somebody flipped a switch.

But if they don't, they'll survive. We all survived every economic disruption that came before, and we'll survive this one.

Unless you can show me the mass grave of those typists.