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Old 11-21-2017, 11:21 PM  
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I agree. They have been saying things like this my whole life, but the difference is the advances we made before all created large new sections of industry or at least comparable jobs, for example, a person who was working in a warehouse that distributed books now might work in an Amazon warehouse. The creations were meant to make our lives easier and more efficient. Automation/robotics/AI is all designed to remove humans from the equation. It's not going to happen tomorrow or next year, maybe not even in our lifetimes, but I don't think we are too far off from a situation where a basic Universal Income of some sort will be put in place.
AI is the difference. I had an issue with Amazon today (they tried to charge me $50 for some "credit card security" bullshit) and I had to speak to a person - in a chat box. It worked, but eventually.... Jobs like that will be completely phased out. AI will be able to do that.

This will start to happen in our lifetime.
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