Countless Jobs Have Disappeared Due to Technological Progress

• The invention of Container turned countless tens of thousands of port workers into Port control rooms are female-dominated workplaces.
• Countless telephone switchboard operator and telephone directory assistance jobs have disappeared.
• The Rise of AI Is the End of Cognitive Ability
• Before the transition from Whale oil to Crude Oil, more than ¹70,000 people were employed in the whaling industry in the United States alone. If you consider the related shipbuilding industry and the The Lamplighters That Still Exist that used whale oil, even more jobs disappeared. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway also originated from this whaling industry.
• Ford, the Greatest Businessman of the Modern World

Other

• Film cameras and Kodak
• 114 directory assistance operators
• Telephone switchboard operators
• Payphones and phone cards
• Stock ticker operators

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Topics: digitalization,automation,job
Category: Evergreen
Related: Many More Jobs Will Disappear in the Future
Status: Ever/Tree

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Footnotes

1. https://jmagazine.joins.com/monthly/view/338634 ↩