[ensiferum]

Just an example:

There are about 4 million truckers in the US whose jobs will be axed the minute self driving trucks become reality on a mass scale (i.e. in the next +5 years when the tech is ready and the final bill passes).

In the meanwhile, how many teachers and artists and therapists do you think there will be (or are needed for)?

[hutzlibu]

Well, needed are probably much more. But paying them at our current society is a different question, and that you dont become a good therapist from beeing a truck driver for 40 years that easy. So what?

I just gave a counterexample to "What job category is increasing in demand today, and with no foreseeable threat from robots in the near future?"

But in general, there are allways so much things needed to be done, but dont because society dont pay for it, and the people cant afford in their free time. So I see zero problems with having too little work in the future. Just with the thing, for what people get money for. Not an easy thing to solve ...