That’s what I hear people say but I don’t believe it. Just like power equipment took the place of much manual labor, so robots may take he place of much manual labor. But just as the emergence of power equipment thrust us into a new and better age with lots of economic opportunity, so a robotic age should do the same.
I believe every threshold of a new economic frontier has had naysayers that say there will be less wealth and economic opportunity. I don’t believe it for a second. Uncomfortable for some? Yes. Difficult transition for some? Yes. But economically disadvantageous? No. Economically benefiting most, if not all, individuals? Yes.
My fear is, what jobs will there be for people with below-average intelligence? Those are the jobs that have been automated. What are they doing to do?
And on top of that, a good portion of those jobs go to illegals.