What is the Conservative Answer to Technological Unemployment?

So far as I can tell, it’s a statement of faith that past is prologue. Specifically, that because all past waves of automation generated more new jobs than were destroyed, this wave of automation must do the same.

But sometimes what’s new really is different. This is such a time. The automation now emerging has these unprecedented attributes:

1. Machines that learn like people learn: by observation, trial, error, and correction. Once a single such machine can perform a job at human-equivalent levels…