Ok time for my rant. Factory workers replaced by robots, checkout clerks replaced by digital checkout scanners, Walmart decimating downtown shopping. I'm nearing the end of my working career, but what kind of good paying jobs are available to new hires? We lost manufacturing, loosing retail, can the economy survive on healthcare for retiring baby boomers?
Ummm...people still need to build and program robots, computers need to be built to operate them, engineers need to integrate them into facilities, people need to oversee their operation, maintanence needs to be done on them by people...etc.
The world is changing, but jobs aren’t going away...they are just shifting in nature. And, in all honesty, it means better higher paying jobs where people work with their brains instead of their backs. It isn’t a bleak future, it is a better one where people are more valued as thinkers than laborers.
