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I don’t really buy the second half of this at all. It obviously doesn’t generalize very well. Is it bad if there are fewer coal miners in the future as a result of modernization? bsky.app/profile/euge...

We don’t need to mine coal but we do need to continue maths, and there are surely benefits to having people who understand the maths. Modernization (not replacement like coal mining) has always left people in the chain of knowing, like how there’s still programmers who write assembly

presumably the force that causes there to be fewer mathematicIans here is also a modernizing force that makes the occupation less important. That is, if it were true (not that it is), it would be good. The loss is not bad on its own. You need to imply that it’s bad and that’s just circular.