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Human ability is not liquid enough. She has already been mistrained/miseducated by the time her skills have become obsolete.

Either she's going to end up jobless, poor, and constantly fighting the change that took her job away, or she's going to educate herself enough to join a new career.

In the former, there's a loss of economic value because she's going to be working against progress while at the same time not contribute economically because she keeps fighting for keeping the things the same old inefficient way.

In the latter, she's being punished for picking the wrong career path that society probably partly encouraged her to pick.



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