oh man, i made a topic about this on 261 about automation.
nobody is answering certain questions:
1. What new jobs have been created by automation in the past few decades? I found some articles and all I found were joke jobs like SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
2. If google translate becomes perfect, what's stopping someone from sending engineering and programming jobs over to Ukraine to some dude for 5k a year?
We're going to get fucked massively. Any moderately smart person knows it, but very strong interests out there (e.g. megacorporations, lobbying groups, governments) don't want us to see it, because if people see it they will resist it.
They give people stupid excuses that are easily debunked:
1) "Automation will create new jobs!"
This is a lie. Well, not strictly a lie, but the jobs it creates are not for the same people it displaces, nor is it the same number of jobs.
The best example is, "100,000 truck drivers, aged over 40, with a high school diploma were displaced by self driving trucks, they used to earn 40k a year" and "the jobs generated by truck driver automation is 20 software developer jobs for IT guys with computer science degrees and 4 industry certifications, based in Bangalore, earning 10k a year"
2) "Automation will give us the freedom to be truly creative!"
Yeah that is awesome, if you're a millionaire. People work because they need to earn money. People can't eat creativity or create food and money with their imagination and a box of colored pencils.
3) "Automation will allow people to move up on the job ladder"
Yeah, because horses were able to become Ford or GM CEOs after cars became commonplace. Your average mcdonald's burger flipper or starbucks barista won't get a juicy new job after his job is gone with his current skills.
4) "Only dumb/low skilled people will lose their jobs"
Tell that to translators... and in the future accountants (turbotax), transactional lawyers (legal zoom) and and even website developers (have you seen what wix can do?!)
Also, the jobs that will be the first to be automated will be all the low-skilled ones. Imagine all those angry unemployed construction guys, truck-drivers, retail, fast food, uber drivers and shit?
ITS GONNA BE CRAY. They aren't going to get new work.
Yeah. It's a bit outraging too, because shills in internet message board say real stupid things like "they should go back to college and get a computer science degree and a 4.0 GPA". Yeah... ALL of them. At age 45+. With families. It's not gonna happen.