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by valuearb 2211 days ago
Yet median incomes continue to rise, despite the swath automation takes to “skilled” jobs every generation.

The personal computer annilated lots of “premium” calculator jobs in accounting. Yet somehow it’s created far better jobs to replace them.

It’s easy to see which jobs would go away because of automation. Yet No one has ever been able to predict the better new jobs that arise with any level of accuracy. Yet that has always happened. Why should that change now?