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Nearly anyone can be a dishwasher or a salesclerk or a janitor or a groundskeeper or an assembly-line worker. These jobs do not require a high degree of skill or training, and tend to involve performing simple, repetitive tasks. This also means that a machine can (or will be) invented to do that job for less money. Not everyone can be a software developer, a database administrator, a structural engineer, or a doctor. These jobs are hard to automate because they require a high level of cognitive ability and have proven difficult to automate (so far).
There's a trend to replace all workers with machines. That may even include those on the right side of the Gaussian Distribution. ( for a discussion of that read the whole thing)
I've written about this before. Thought about it too.
What I think is that if the trends go far enough, people may have to return to the farm in order to feed themselves. This may be quite disruptive, come to think of it.
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