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How much education do you need to screw caps on toothpaste as compared to designing robot arms? How many people just can't attain that level of education?

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This is the problem, I agree more jobs are created and people can retrain but a certain sector of society will simply not be able to do so.

We need to make sure they are looked after.

That's not the problem. That's the fallacy.

Sure, right now it's ridiculous to think that some tooth-paste screwer is going to go and get a robotics Ph.D. However, that will not be the case in the future.

Using a computer at all used to require advanced training. Not anymore. We grow up on them, and things like "data entry" are low skilled jobs. The same will be true of building robotic arms.

The problem with this is that if you can dumb down or break down the process of building robotic arms so that unintelligent people can do it, so can those same robots! This is the point that some people seem to miss is that we're in completely uncharted waters here. The old rules of "more jobs will be created" just don't apply.

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