抄写句子要细心，你把mistake抄成了make，句子就不通了。原句如下：
The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and fragile recoveries. And yet, it would be a mistake to think we are right now simply experiencing the painful side of a boom and bust cycle. Certain jobs have gone away for good, outmoded by machines. Since technology has such an insatiable appetite for eating up human jobs, this phenomenon will continue to restructure our economy in ways we can't immediately foresee.
it为形式主语，to think...为不定式作真正主语（外置主语）。虽然语法上不定式为真正主语，但不定式表示的动作具有假设意义，即我们并非真的这么认为，所以主句用了虚拟语气would be. 这个句子也可以改写如下：
It would be a mistake if we thought that we are...
