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OlfinBedwere said:
CaptainExplosion said:

The latter scenario is a horrible future. -_-

 But one with a basis in history, for better or worse. After the Dotcom Crash a lot of people were saying how stupid it was for anyone to think that online shopping could ever match the convenience of bricks and mortar retail. It might have taken twenty years of technological advances and a factor (the COVID pandemic) that no-one could ever have predicted at the turn of the century, but it did happen in the end.

But this is worse. We're talking about maybe millions of art and animation jobs lost to soulless automation that wastes water.