Originally Posted by
Black Heart
Will this happen (now) or at the appropriate time - or will it lag behind?
Lag behind worse than we have in the past due to the acceleration of technology. We haven't learned much politically and socially since we moved through our development from hunter gatherers, to farming, to urbanites, to merchants, to nation states.
Since somebody figured a piece of wood shaped just right could plow a field faster, better and cheaper, folks have lost jobs. Back then probably less severe because technology change was much slower to spread. Now new technology spreads globally and is utilized in months rather than centuries as in ancient history.
We simply haven't a clue how to cope with it. Nor did our ancestors who were not stupid.
We are no smarter than they were. We just know more.