Because we don't have a good enough socialized safety net in the US, or in many other countries, and if you think that most taxi drivers can retrain rapidly to a highly skilled job that isn't in danger of being automated away, you're delusional.
It's a solvable problem, I think, and eventually people will find a niche, but burying your head and pretending that this isn't an issue at all isn't a good idea.
Exactly. This isn't a problem on its own but a symptom of something else that is not right. I'm against implementing protections of the status quo for the sake of masking the symptoms at the expense of progress.
This was quite depressing to say the least. The fact that one is so helpless against the hivemind and unable to defend oneself against such mob-driven attacks makes me shrivel