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by pixl97 1114 days ago
There are also still farmers. There is just a massively smaller number of them than what there was in the past. Now, lots of them moved to tractor factories, but those have automated, and the jobs moved to service and intelligence jobs.

The word 'all' is not something we should focus on. Technically if one farmer or travel agent existed, then 'all' those jobs have not been automated away. The structural integrity of society (or at least a desirable society) demands that we have some means providing for our existence at large population scales. Now it doesn't matter so much if this is a job, or UBI, or something we've not thought of yet as this should hopefully avoid a fascist collapse scenario where large amounts of unemployed people vote in or demand rather human hostile governments.