” New ones will be created as new technologies are developed, engineered and maintained. And, overall, these will be better, more high-skilled jobs. The agriculture industry provides a case in point. “
Nope.... Most new jobs will go to the robots and Artificial Intelligence.
Any new job that requires a human will go overseas to the slave labor markets in Asia or Latin America.
Now you will not see this happen overnight, but you will see a slow bleeding of jobs. Just like it has been since NAFTA.
What about Robot Makers, developers, programmers and maintenance people?
I don’t think China makes the Japanese robots that assemble cars. They’re still made in Japan last I heard.