[ClumsyPilot]

Think bigger - we are about to automate driving. That’s like 20 Million of people. Where do they go?

Look at top 10 jobs by employment, all of them are 100+ years old. Name a job that was created in the last 50 years - real jobs that employ at least 1 million people, not ‘leveraged crypto-equity portfolio manager’

[charliea0]

Home health and personal care aide is the largest employment category in the US. As other sectors become more efficient, you can direct more people into healthcare, entertainment, etc.

[tbrownaw]

> Name a job that was created in the last 50 years - real jobs that employ at least 1 million people

C dates back to the early 70s, and computers weren't really ubiquitous until the 90s or so. So does computer programming in general make your cutoff?

Or does it date back to Babbage in the 1800s?

[Uehreka]

Programming is one of the only truly new job fields in the last century. But despite growing up right alongside the automation/offshoring of manufacturing, it wasn’t able to absorb the labor coming from that sector. Labor is not a fungible thing that can easily move from one column to another, that’s a big part of the problem with any sudden massive change in the nature of labor.

[SSLy]

plenty in digital arts, most in game dev or film making, some in music performance.

[Uehreka]

The fields you just listed are extremely cutthroat highly desired high-skill jobs that are currently being threatened by automation. We also don’t have jobs for the people being forced out of those fields, it’s not like there’s room in there to absorb millions of laid off laborers.

[ClumsyPilot]

> digital arts

Art is still art, whether you paint with oil or on an iPad. Doesn’t quite count.