Rapid change is a real problem and not a flaw of society. People cannot change careers quickly without loss of human capital. There is no flaw in society that you can fix to prevent this.
It doesn't mean that we shouldn't make things more efficient, but economies exist to serve people, not the other way around. That sometimes means bailing some people out, sometimes it means phasing something in, and sometimes it means changing the definition of value.
For example, painting used to be how you'd get a portrait. But photos did that much better. Painting shifted: it became much more abstract, and because photos were cheap and easy, they didn't have the same cachet as a portrait. Not many people hang big photo portraits on their walls they way they might have done with paintings.
I suspect authenticity, or some other thing which the machine cannot replicate, may be valued more in future.
It doesn't mean that we shouldn't make things more efficient, but economies exist to serve people, not the other way around. That sometimes means bailing some people out, sometimes it means phasing something in, and sometimes it means changing the definition of value.
For example, painting used to be how you'd get a portrait. But photos did that much better. Painting shifted: it became much more abstract, and because photos were cheap and easy, they didn't have the same cachet as a portrait. Not many people hang big photo portraits on their walls they way they might have done with paintings.
I suspect authenticity, or some other thing which the machine cannot replicate, may be valued more in future.