• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    There were people who went around lighting oil street lamps and stuff like that before the electric lightbulb.

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        2 days ago

        Probably sat around doing nothing thinking “man I started this job and called it an electrician, but I can’t find work because no one even knows what electricity is. Hell I don’t either.”

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          16 hours ago

          Oh I’m sorry I commented. I’m sorry I caused that painful feeling again you have in your brain like once a year. Carry on in your black and white world I’m sure there’s no data we could look at finding the jobs lost from electricity vs the jobs gained.

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            15 hours ago

            This whole useless chain of comments was simply an attempt to inform you that there was a type of job that was lost after lightbulbs and electricity came into use because you made a comment that suggested you didn’t know it existed, that’s literally it, anything extra is you jumping to make assumptions. No one is suggesting that there weren’t jobs gained afterwards…

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              3 hours ago

              Let me shed a tear for the ice man, milk man, typewriter salesman, and coal heat delivery guy. Some jobs will be lost and won’t be upgraded at all.

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          16 hours ago

          Lol I’m sure that’s not bullshit propaganda taught to school children in the USA. A fairy tale, just like the other one "don’t worry about being shot and murdered in school it’s perfectly safe.