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by Udik 3686 days ago
The problem is not in the amount of job to be done. The problem is the cost of replacing a human being with a machine. Until the cost is higher than the worker's salary, that worker is fine. When it becomes lower, there is no job for him any more. So far we've always been in a situation where for any job that could be done by a machine, infinite more would only be doable by a real human. But we'll quickly reach the point where there will be NO jobs that can't be done by a machine for cheaper. On the other hand, if information technology keeps evolving much faster than robotics, the kast jobs to actually disappear will be the low qualification manual jobs. Note that truck driving is an intellectual job, not a manual one.