[lurker_primo]

I believe that if the job can be automated, it will be. That is the way humanity is progressing since the beginning. If you want a current example, you can look at farming practices. It is highly automated and industrialized in developed countries. It is common to see 1 person managing a 500 acre farm with machines. In developing countries, farming is still a very labor intensive process. It isn't economically viable to bring machines to farms yet and the labor rates are sufficiently low. Over the decades, I have seen more and more machines coming to the farms as the availability of labor has decreased and the wages have increased.

> software developer, strategist, manager, etc.

These jobs cannot be automated easily now, but in future, we may have a good enough AI that can do these jobs. Consider the jobs that existed in 19th and 20th century. Many of them don't exist nowadays at all. For ex., Horses were a major component of transportation. There were a lot of people involved to support this industry. If we stopped the progress of automotive industry on moral grounds that these people would lose their jobs, wouldn't we be cheating our future?

We cannot legislate job protection because then somebody else will come along, automate it, and offer the service at a lower price. What we can do is legislate for fair working conditions, wages etc, and a stable social net that will support people who can't/won't work for any reason. This brings us to the topic of UBI and others.