[quote=carlsbadworker]I think some of the comments are short-sighted. Yes, automation and robots are going to kill manufacturing jobs and retail jobs, but so what? That doesn’t mean overall jobs are going to decline.[/quote]

Retail and Manufacturing? Try white collar. Bye-bye 80-90% of those office white collar jobs.

Accounting, bye-bye.
Human Resources, bye-bye.
Tech Support, bye- bye.
Customer Service Positions, bye-bye.
Legal support positions, bye-bye.
R&D, yep, lots of mid and low level stuff going bye-bye. Automation is seriously letting Pharma consolidate R&D staff.
Tax departments, bye-bye.
Medical support, bye-bye (robots already reading x-rays and results).

True creating positions and sales positions will remain, but a lot of the positions doing the grunt work under the creative designers is going out.

Those people may still be employed, they may even still do something similar to related to it, but they’ll be in a very different organizational structure likely will be either gigging it or trying a startup.