The Luddite-fallacy, this is both hilariously relevant, and hilariously ironic.
If "technological change is accelerating" ..... then it just means that our aggregate options are accelerating even faster.
They are, after all, two sides of the same coin (another example of yet another type of SECTORAL BALANCES).
The only thing that is NOT accelerating, is our distributed awareness of our own, distributed options, AND our standard process for successfully exploring our aggregate options.
Is this a natural, "tunable" cycle? Whenever a population gets wealthier, it gets more distracted, or non-selective, or complacent (out of practice), before it can regain and extend motivation?
Just as anything that grows, has to get clumsier, before it can regain and extend agility? Systemic adjustments must always chase, not precede or synchronize with, net change - including organic growth, and all the new inter-dependencies that any net growth triggers.
How SOON does a growing system regain & extend adaptive rate? Or how closely it does it track it's unpredictable survival path? That's a function of how much infrastructure it builds out, and how much it PRACTICES at building and using more, more distributed, and more selectively tuned ... physical AND cultural infrastructure?
Surely the next stage in evolving human cultures will involve social mutations that create new methods (including "jobs") for keeping growing populations more adaptively agile ... presumably by creating and utilizing new, unpredictably subtle, cultural (not just physical) infrastructure.
Meanwhile, we're systemically ignoring the obvious? Another sectoral balance - between individual unemployment and distributed options.
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