But what about teaching jobs, from K-1 through to university level, or jobs in sales, managing,accounting, marketing and product design? How would people who specialized their whole lives for work in those fields be able to find alternative work in the automated age? i don’t see how they would - and in these job areas alone we are talking millions upon millions of Americans in addition to currently unemployed Americans.
Managers, salesmen, accountants, designers are not being replaced, but their jobs are being enhanced and made more effective by technology. And consider the Da Vinci Surgical robot that allows a surgeon in Baltimore operate on a kid in South Africa.
There are plenty of jobs available for kids that go to technical schools and learn basic trades (many of which are now high-tech) and the oil fields in Texas and North Dakota are screaming for workers.
Much unemployment today is due to kids going to college and majoring in something that doesn't prepare them for a job.
All this said, yes, sometimes people get replaced and/or just fired. New technologies come along...some companies simply fail.
So those people will have to retrain and sometimes move...but such is life.