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Originally Posted by Resurrection
I'd love to see some of your reactions if someone came in to your place of work and offered to do your job for minimum wage. But I guess everyone here is a Doctor or Lawyer right? Everyone here is completely irreplaceable?
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A recent study on j
obs vulnerable to automation is sobering. Accountants? 98 per cent chance many jobs in the field will be replaced by automated systems in the next 10-20 years. Civil engineering technologists? 75 per cent. Construction estimators? 57 per cent. Medical laboratory technologists? 90 per cent.
I can't bring myself to support keeping inefficient industries and practices alive. But we shouldn't kid ourselves about where this is headed. In 20 years we will only need the labour of maybe 1/3 of the people in Canada. What's everyone else going to do? And how will they pay their bills?