[seanmcdirmid]

This could be drawn out to almost career. There isn’t an X shortage, just a shortage of people willing to work for Y that the market will bear.

Automation really is the only way to increased human productivity. The more machines we have doing things, the less things the humans need to do, simple. The only struggle will be ensuring that all the profit for robot labor doesn’t wind up in just the pockets of a few.