[marcus_holmes]

There will always be some kind of work at this level. I did market research, which sucked, and fruit picking, which sucked, and warehouse order picking, which sucked, and bar work, which didn't suck too much, before getting into my career.

I think if we replaced all those jobs with robots, there would still be new, more interesting, work at this level that would emerge.

My favourite example of this is bank clerks. Every bank used to employ an army of clerks that did all the double-entry book-keeping by hand. Then we invented computers and that entire career vanished. All of the people who would have been bank clerks are now doing something else, almost certainly something else way more interesting than being a human spreadsheet. But at roughly the same pay level in roughly the same numbers as bank clerks used to be employed.