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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
While I agree that jobs will be further automated in the future, I highly doubt we'll see a bunch of people out of work because "the machines took their jobs". Our technological landscape changes so rapidly, with hundreds of thousands (if not more) of people now employed in industries that didn't exist 10 year years. I don't see why this cannot continue in perpetuity.
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I think this is a micro vs macro thing. In aggregate technology advances create more new and better jobs than they replace. Because we can get the same productivity with less inputs, freeing those people to do something else.
But the distribution of the productivity gains isn't equal. If you've done the same thing for 30 years and become obsolete, going back to school to learn how to code python may not be a realistic choice. While society as a whole certainly benefits, individuals whose skills become obsolete don't.