Unfortunately it's much easier to predict which jobs will get automated than it is to imagine which jobs will be created...
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That has always been the case -- pessimists have been warning everyone against technology-induced mass unemployment for over a hundred years
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Wave after wave of tech progress has been automating literally all jobs available in, say, 1850 or 1950. But today US unemployment is at 4%
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Remember that automation drives productivity, and productivity drives wealth, which drives employment
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Ultimately the only thing you can do with wealth is borrow the time of other humans. Money is an integral of human time (& finite resources)
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And that's why we have incrementally shortened the work week. Which we haven't done since the 1970's/1980's. We need to catch up.
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Yup & every time we have a wave of pessimists declaring doom and someone points out historical trends, they say "this time is different"
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