[Barrin92]

makes sense but automation is hard, it doesn't fall from the sky like manna.

Reality is that automating the easiest jobs is the hardest (old Minsky observation) and most essential services you can't substitute fall into that category. No robot plumber or roof tiler in the near future.

Article is right to point out that the pandemic together with the anti-migration stance and isolationism is going to push the cost of labour as well as goods.