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What gets me is we all know automation is coming, but so few people put any effort at all into figuring out how it works and how they could improve their jobs and wages with it.

many people will lose their jobs because of automation and that will be a big problem.

Not entirely true. Automation also creates loads of jobs. It requires technical innovation, designers, programmers, builders ect.. Why would we 'humans' perform hard labor if we can program and build machines to do it for us? We need to keep evolving Grin

I'd rather have more machines do labor for us so others can focus on taking care of our elder people or other stuff that matters more.

the unskilled/uneducated people will lose their jobs first. they can not become designers, programmers and builders.

Well imagine if you where unskilled/uneducated but wearing a pair of googleglasses that would tell you exactly step by step how to operate a verry complex machine? Grin

Everything is possible with technology......

Without automation our food, clothes ect. would all become more and more expensive. We woudn't even be able to feed everyon on this world without it actually..... Its a MUST if we want to survive with this many people on this planet.

No one here is opposed automation I imagine.. Yes it is for sure needed to keep our standard of living.
I however do not believe that there will be enough jobs for everyone to work the long hours we do now. So things need to change if automation cause the major disruption it's predicted to do.

Either unemployment skyrockets, in the worst case causing extreme poverty and eventually riots/revolution. Or everyone agrees to lower weekly working hours and shares the income like that (which also means that wages for sure need to go up). Or some sort of UBI is implemented, so no one if forced into poverty.

This is of course some ways away, but I certainly cannot see many new jobs coming, like it's happened the past 200 years. There's quite a few good videos on youtube explaining exactly why that is