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I'm not convinced that most companies are going to choose shifting all those people to "higher value work", when the alternative is firing at least some of them them to improve short-term shareholder profits.

What you say is totally going to do opposite! In developing countries like India here people don't have too many skills are going to face the heat anyways

it turns out many professions are essentially a long loop of repetitive tasks. Think telemarketing, or phone support, for instance. What kind of "higher-value work" would a phone support agent do?

> The goal isn’t to replace people [...] It’s about shifting roles, not eliminating them and doing it responsibly.

With what knowledge you have of the entire history of capitalism ever, do you, genuinely and earnestly, believe this is what's going to happen, and there isn't, perhaps, a different outcome that is more likely?