>>A lot of good white-color jobs can be done better and more cheaply by a solid algorithm that makes decisions using available inputs.
A lot of work from home jobs that consist of a person working at a PC, using text, mail, chat and collaborative tools will be eliminated.
Yes. People have been saying for years that “burger flippers” will be replaced by machines. And if they solve the problems with self-driving vehicles, then truck drivers will go away too.
Some people shrug and say, “Low level jobs! Who cares!”
But as you say, a huge number of jobs that were done from home during COVID can also go away. Many people with college degrees will be unemployable because they don’t have skills that are needed any more (the machines do the work better).
That’s transformative. It’s not Skynet, but it doesn’t have to be.
And tens of millions of newly unemployed people with no income stream just might get bored and cause trouble. That’s also transformative.