Blacksmiths used to be in every community, serving much the same social role as barber shops are portrayed as having in AA-dominated areas. Now if you can find one it's probably a frou-frou artisan bilking the 1% for bespoke gates for their summer estates. Almost all women of the yeoman class used to spin and/or weave at home. The great noble much-vaunted manufacturing jobs killed both, and many many more besides from bookbinders to leather workers. Then large companies had teams of accounting clerks, file clerks, secretaries and assistants. The IT revolution that has given normal people so much power and communication and access to information, not to mention DU, killed most of them along with travel agents and many retail workers, and yet more people are working than ever before, wages are rising modestly, and unemployment by any reasonable measure is at worst moderate. So in the next couple of decades we'll be seeing panics about drivers as they, as they inevitably will, start being replaced in a wave that will give us safer more efficient roads, more relaxed and productive lifestyles and more universal mobility in return The writing is on the wall. Don't go into driving as a long term career now unless it's at the most specialized level, just as every single person has internalized about blacksmithing for centuries and purely clerical accounting or secretarial work for decades. The only reason we are not aghast at the lack of iron-melting and shaping career options is because we are used to it not being anything but a niche option. Infants today will feel the same about driving, and probably squawking about the same problem in medical care or coding or whatever else can be done more effectively and efficiency with far fewer humans next.
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