Automation Insurance: Robots Are Replacing Middle Class Jobs [View All]

[AngryAmish]

"The middle class is disappearing and the problem is deeper than politics. How will we understand work in the coming age of robotics?
Last April, the MIT economist David Autor published a report that looked at the shifting employment landscape in America. He came to this scary conclusion: Our workforce is splitting in two. The number of high-skill, high-income jobs (think lawyers or research scientists or managers) is growing. So is the number of low-skill, low-income jobs (think food preparation or security guards). Those jobs in the middle? They’re disappearing. Autor calls it “the polarization of job opportunities.”

These days, all of us, from President Obama on down, are thinking about jobs. The unemployment rate is hovering around 10 percent, we’ve watched the ground disappear from under Detroit and Wall Street, and there’s a pervading sense that other industries might be next."

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This has been my hobby horse for a few years: there are fewer and fewer jobs that can't be done faster and better by computers and robots. Cashiers at the grocery store. Bank clerk. Insurance adjuster. Pilot.

People have to figure out what to do with their lives. Doing a job that a robot can do will not work.

My advice: unless you are real smart become a plumber or electrician. Learn to fix these things before you are redundant.