https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/02/how-being-replaced-by-a-machine-turned-this-graphic-artist-into-an-activist/
"The biggest change he’s referring to is the technologically driven
separation of people from traditional jobs. Experts predict that, by
2020, over 5 million jobs
will be lost due to robotics, AI, 3D printing, and other
technologies—largely in office and administrative work. But other
sectors will be affected as well. After all, robots can deliver pizza, mop floors, make soup, work an assembly line, check in hotel guests, carry cargo onto battlefields, and perform surgery. It’s not too much of a stretch to imagine them one day displacing sex workers."
Trump wants to re-open coal mines, which is like bringing back buggie whips. We have to think more about what job displacement can mean. When I was young the magazine articles promised that robots would mean more leisure time for workers, not less pay and wealth transfer to corporations. That promise could still be realized.
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