[Buckeye McFrog]

Eventually it will result in millions of unemployed voters who will gladly elect Socialists to loot the people who did this to them.

Disturbing, but you can see that coming.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The elites are trying to get ahead of that with the “guaranteed minimum income” that they’re talking about.

[billyboy15]

Yeah just like all those employed in the buggy whip manufacturing industry affected a huge political groundswell when they lost their jobs because of the automobile.

Times change, jobs change, people adjust and retrain into different fields. My guess is 50% of jobs which existed in the 1940’s are gone, replaced by jobs no one could imagine back then.

You seem to believe technology advances are bad, they are not.

[Cronos]

True, I create stuff that6 automates a lot of routine work - both physical and mental (think clerks) - and I've done a lot of worrying about this over the past few years.

i see it as inevitable that, within 10 years most routine jobs will be automated. The price for automation (programs, hardware) will be so low it will not be worth hiring burger flippers or bank staff. you just want smart creatives.

But the smart creatives are only 10% of the population (or less). So what do we do with the remaining 90%? perhaps some can be retrained, but not all. This is going to be bad especially as the pace of change is accelerating.