[vincnetas]

Exactly. And these people are usually automated out, not moved to some other position. And if they were working this non exiting job before, what guarantees they have thet after automation they magically will land an interesting and fulfilling role.

[tupputuppu]

Well one guarantee is - according to scientific consensus - that this exact same process has been working for the last 200 years, and previously people have always gotten better jobs and a higher standard of living. You think the people working farm jobs or sweatshops had better opportunities at the time their jobs were automated away?

[Viliam1234]

The difference is that 200 years ago, most work was physically challenging but intellectually simple. When some of those jobs were replaced by jobs that were easier physically but more challenging intellectually, we got different opportunities for different people.

Today would be analogical if we had a population of people with average IQ 150, locked in jobs that require IQ 100. By automating those jobs away, we would open new opportunities that would fit people better.

But instead, we have a world where the average IQ is 100, and the standard advice for people who lose their jobs is "learn to code". So we get the situation where some people are unable to find a job, and other people are pushed to work overtime... and we cannot balance it by hiring the former into job positions of the latter.

(Also, historically speaking, many people starved to death when their farms were taken away. The new jobs appeared later, but it took some time.)