We only need look at what the computer did to many (60%) non-college educated people who have difficultly finding meaningful work which can provide for a family.

Daron Acemoglu is talking about this and Building Pro-Worker AI. His 2024 Nobel Prize lecture is quite good (as are his fellow laureates that year)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34854

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nevdka an hour ago | parent [-]

Why would you assume that was the fault of computers? There are many social, economic, and policy changes that would have much larger effects.

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verdverm an hour ago | parent [-]

It's not the fault of computers, but they changed the fabric. It was a select few of our fellow humans, who also did deregulation, financialization, and globalization. They all started at the same time and have concentrated wealth and power the last 4-5 decades.

Computers are still a significant factor because most new tasks created were cognitive and needed university education. Or another way, the automation that computers brought eliminated jobs in labor, but we did not create new jobs for those people. The three others were instrumental in that side of the equation.

	▲	xp84 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, we did create new jobs for them technically. It’s just that the jobs are terrible. Those disrupted in the past 20 years have been given gig-economy BS to replace their jobs. The jobs created for the factory workers and the former professional retail workers, in the 90s, were in big-box stores.