[mark_l_watson]

Thanks, that is a great question! It is also a topic that my family and friends prefer not to discuss, so I appreciate being able to express this:

I think that corporate profits and people with high-value job skills or their own profitable companies or farms will be in fine shape.

For the middle class and poor: inflation will get a lot worse and hurt these people. In the USA, it seems like neither political party is supporting small businesses, and why should they? Mega corporations fund both parties, not individuals and small businesses.

[japoneris]

I appreciate your answer and all of the other. I ask the question to try to see out of my bubble, where I only see a small part of the iceberg.

I support your point of view that low-skilled jobs would be the most impacted. Being part of a large company, we are in a very safe position.

With automation, companies are in a grey zone. Do they add more robots, so it improves the quality of life of workers while firing some/most of them, or do they prefer "social workers", doing repetitive tasks with no added value ? Which one is the most ethical ? Japan made the first choice, thanks to ageing population and absence of immigration to compensate.

I don't know the detail in USA, but the lack of social net / government-grants for unemployement does not help to secure a little bit. In France, the social net is not the answer, as it has many problems. Small businesses are closing because 1. They don't find employees (that converted to other jobs or prefer social grants or are completely unqualified), 2. Business is not restarting while government grants are shutting down, 3. They are sick of uncertaincy to open / close / protocols / etc.