What will happen to all of the people whose jobs depend on caring for horses when horses are no longer our primary mode of transportation? We don't have basic income yet! What will happen next?
With a properly run automation program, an entire category of jobs can be eliminated in < 1 year now.
It's time we stop ignoring two things: (1) the pace of technological employment disruption is increasing (in speed, if scale is debatable), (2) the time for an employee to reskill is > 0.
Trump was elected on neo-liberal economics failing to compassionately account for the consequences of and requirements for frictional unemployment (moving from one job to another). It'd be nice not to make the same mistake again.
That seems..not right. Robotics companies like Bossa Nova have been at this since 2006-2010. That's a good 8-15 years and multiple changes in political offices.
Even still I think its a decade till we see any effect on the labour market. We still have time to act....for now.
For context, I've been a blazing sword through 100+ person offshore teams with projects that took a month to build. :/
E.g. "the stuff that accounting has to do every month to keep the company operating" or "half of your call center workload"