[Sambdala]

You mean it's going to have a positive effect on the economy?

You no longer have 100,000 people digging and refilling proverbial holes, so they're now free to contribute in other ways.

Of course that's going to cause some short term friction, but a refusal to see past that friction would still have >90% of us working a family farm for a living.

[Negitivefrags]

Each time menial jobs are removed via automation, in theory all of those now jobless people are freed to work better jobs. In reality, better jobs need more training and technical skills.

It may be due to education or just human nature, but most are unwilling or unable to adapt and learn.

If we are not careful we will end up with a techno-illiterate underclass that are unable to find any work due to not having skills beyond what was required in the jobs that are now replaced by automation.