Short YouTube monologue by a single speaker (Kyle Balmer) arguing that technology (e.g., advertising or AI) shifts labor rather than simply eliminating jobs—using the example that advertising replaced door-to-door sales rather than leaving people unemployed.
So everyone goes right away into, like, demonizing technology. Oh, here this comes. It's gonna eliminate junior copywriters. Okay, but junior copywriters eliminated something, too. Like when advertising came out, what happened to the salesman? If we had no advertising, wouldn't everybody be a salesman? The answer is yes. Just real quick. If there was no branding and advertising, would people be knocking on people's doors and saying, would you like to buy this cup of coffee? Let me save everyone time. The answer is yes.