Raw LLM Responses

I hate sounding cruel or insensitive here - but adapt or die. How many stagecoach builders are there these days, hmmm? How many typewriter maintenance technicians are there, compared to what there was 40 years ago? Conversely, how many web designers were there in 1989 compared to a decade later.....or how many smart phone software application developers were there in 2005? (Hardly any as the smart phone didn't come out until early 2007.) How many coal miners are there left? According to Wikipedia, "employment in bituminous coal mining peaked at 705,000 men in 1923, falling to 140,000 by 1970 and 70,000 in 2003" - 10% of peak employment figures. Further, "despite resistance, mechanization replaced more and more laborers. By 1940, over 2/3 of coal loaded in the large West Virginia fields was done by machine." I lived in West Virginia for a few years while I was in middle school and high school - so I became quite aware of the history of coal mining in the state. Automation wrecked communities in McDowell County - often-cited as the poorest county in the United States. Why is it the poorest? Through a combination of poor geography, poor education, a lack of collective civic and state government assistance, basic motivation and basic befuddlement over the gradual (yet decades-steady) decline of the coal industry, communities failed to figure out how to replace the coal industry on a job-for-job, dollars-for-dollars basis - thus leaving counties and whole regions devoid of a healthy tax base, healthy basic services, functional infrastructure and elevated community morale. Parenthetically, the opioid crisis was sort of the final "nail in the coffin" which completed the hollowing-out of that region, leaving it literally for dead. But the root cause was that communities failed to adapt to changing technology, automation and improved gross tonnage of harvested product. WV was left in the (coal) dust - and the state has yet to recover. But the writing was on the wall since the 40's and 50's - graphs don't lie. It's the unwillingness to react and adapt to such data which dooms whole industries' worth of workers. The nature of human innovation necessitates the expanding and contracting of industries, workers, skills, infrastructure, etc. These changes can come quickly or gradually over decades. Truckers have had 40 years to "get the memo", as it were - to either find a different sandbox to "play" in (so to speak), evolve to advance higher in the industry into boardroom/C-level positions or to strike out to do their own thing - either staying in the logistics field or do something completely different. While I am not faulting truckers these days for being in a contracting industry, they also *know* - if they are students of their trade and industry - that they're riding a star that will eventually fall and burn out. Some who have been in the field for a good while will "sunset" and retire before trucking, as we know it, completely changes; others will be swept up by automation and be forced to leave the field. But the field moves on, regardless as to the human "cost". The same will happen with 3D printing in the home construction industry. While pilot operations are underway now testing technologies and techniques, within my lifetime, 3D printed homes will become a much more accepted and mainstream technique for home construction - thus reducing the number of workers in the field. I hate to say it, folks - but adapt or die. The world is much bigger than your individual egos. This scene from "Moneyball" sums it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugN5aD5p2NU Adapt or die.