I suspect that within a couple decades, a whole lot of jobs will be replaced by robotics or automated systems. Lower-level service industry work will take the biggest hit, but so will a lot of “white-collar” functions. And there are quasi-automated functions like prefab building panels (with wiring and plumbing and all) that are still in the early stages of their full potential.
I’m not really sure how the future will deal with this. What happens when “entry level” jobs simply no longer exist? Beats me.
Techsourcing has been going gangbusters for years. Recently we passed the point where there are more semi-skilled workers than jobs requiring them. This trend is going to do nothing but accelerate and is impacting skilled workers as well. The question remains: what will the excess workers do for a living?
The Democrat plan is to put them on the government plantation. Socket them into a government job or program and finance the ever-growing cost of their upkeep. I don't know for sure what they will do with them when Other People's Money finally dries up. Some type of Soylent Green solution, I suppose. They already do everything in their power to keep the hoi polloi from reproducing.
The Republican plan is...? With techsourcing, growing the economy does not necessarily result in more jobs-it may actually result in fewer jobs as breakthroughs in productivity occur. I don't have any ideas, myself.
“What happens when “entry level” jobs simply no longer exist? Beats me.”
Kind of like when secretaries were replaced by computers....
We import more foreign workers to do the next tier of work, of course!