There will always be jobs. AI won't be able to do everything, we are far off from that world.
Think about it, it's the year 2019 and we can't even invent a robot to separate plastic bags from normal trash.
Yes, but there will be fewer jobs. That's a problem.
The industrial revolution removed a large number of jobs (basic manufacturing skills) and created a load more (advanced manufacturing skills / logistics / etc.).
There is no expectation or even hope of a new class of jobs coming out of the high-power automation that we are liable to see in the next couple of decades.
Jobs will be created elsewhere because human wants are endless.
Most of the new jobs created in the past 10 years are temporary / gig jobs without benefits, nothing like the manufacturing jobs lost.
So, great opportunities for some, but many will suffer.
I'm sure "we" can, but nobody (who could) sees it as a potential profit-making product that they could sell.
We cannot just move forward and leave the people behind. Capitalism should try to care for more than jist the few.
So we should stop all innovation so youth can work at McDonalds to pay for college?
You said no we shouldn't stop progress, then what is your solution?
Continue to innovate, people will find a way to make things work. Don't stop innovation because you want to provide low paying jobs for people.
This is not a threat, this is the reality. If we take the food from the table, and exclude them from retraining etc, then at some point they will go hungry and will seek food that is in other tables.
This is already happening to a small degree in some countries. Let's make sure it won't happen to a higher degree and in more countries.
how?
old people can now summon rides on their phone and be out and about instead of being home-bound.
> and we don't pull the rug from under our childrens feet
Everything we build, our children will inherit. It will be their responsibility to improve upon what we leave them. It's not like older people end up taking these technological improvements with them to their grave.
There are more jobs than just fast food. People did jobs that weren't fast food before McDonald's existed and people will do jobs that aren't fast food once McDonald's is fully automated. Right now, on the Internet, you can learn so many things for free. The necessity to learn a skill that pays the bills will drive people to learn skills that can be used to provide goods and services others are willing to pay for. All that is necessary is to open your eyes and look around and see what people are willing to pay for.
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-live-on-7000-per-yea...
Also, old people are not necessarily only use-less consumers. Giving them Uber is nice, but if they can and want to offer/produce it would be a waste to put them in the sidelines just because they can't use the latest technology.