Don't Worry About Robots Stealing Jobs -- This Has Been Happening For Centuries!

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This baby replaced lots of jobs.

With the U.S. unemployment rate still over 7%, Americans are understandably concerned about anything that might cause an additional loss of jobs.

And one of the favorite targets for employment blame--popular on both sides of the political aisle--is robots.

Robots and other automation technologies, it is said, are "stealing our jobs."

Robots now build things people used to make. Computers now store, process, and analyze information that used to be handled by people. And so on...

If we don't stop this relentless technological "progress," the story goes, we will soon automate our entire society and put ourselves out of work.