Because we’d rather be living in a world where textiles are so cheap to produce that everyone can afford to clothe themselves however they want and even the working poor can furnish their homes with upholstered furniture and own more than one towel, blanket, sheets, pillows, and have rugs, mats, carpets, etc. not to even mention all the other woven stuff that isn’t even possible to do by hand along with all the other technologies birthed from the very smart idea of automating a tool that was previously only operated by hand. I don’t know about you but I certainly don’t want to go to my grave bent over this loom.

they'll get a $20k bonus

then in 5 years time they'll rendered permanently unemployable by their own creation

the definitions of both "short sighted" and "digging your own grave" in the dictionary should have a picture of this guy: https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1671213996735594503

he's finally realised how it's going to end up going: https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1758204137286599030

shame he wasn't smart enough to realise that at the beginning

Some people care more about progress than something that occurs to every industry at some point. Some people also realize that as technology changes, so does the job of using technology.

They're absolutely transfixed by the "wow cool robot" effect.

If you don't, someone else will

To prove some kind of superiority over all programmers?

I think that would fit idiot savant logic very well.