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OK, but us oldies have been here before. Back in the 1960s computers were going to take over everyone's job. This article reminds us: Today’s Automation Anxiety Was Alive and Well in 1960
What happened? Well, we got an IT revolution. IBM became the biggest company and then we got Silicon Valley, the Internet and social media. All huge employers of people.
The change to robots and AI could have more profound changes but, as before, it will also create more opportunities along the way.
Opportunities, but not for those who in all reality have nothing to offer the job market but their bodies for physical labor. Besides the millions of unskilled uneducated people already living here like that, we are letting in millions more every year.
OK, but look back to the 1960s. How many people actually became unemployable? Certainly, some had to be re-deployed and others may have retired sooner than they planned but there was no mass unemployment event.
In the UK now, some say they cannot get enough hands to pick fruit and that is after the computer revolution supposedly made millions redundant.