re: What should be done about workers who get displaced by technology?

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We're on the cusp of a different world, a paradigm shift.. What do you do when there are no jobs to be retrained for, when Everything can be done better and more efficiently by machines, from assembly-line work to truck driving, to architecture, to engineering, to medicine.

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Assembly line work has been phasing out in favor of machines for a century now, hasn't it? But there might be more assembly line workers today than there were 50 years ago, because we keep inventing new things that require human hands, and we're making more shite. Truck drivers? They're probably fricked, but if your only skill is driving a truck then you fricked yourself. Architecture and engineering I think will always require humans, because some creativity is required. Medicine probably could eventually be done entirely by machines, but I think people will always prefer humans in these roles.

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That's a hypothetical question now. It may be very real in the next 15-20 years.

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People have probably felt that the world has been on this cusp for quite a while. I think we will always be 15-20 years away.