With recognized access for gaining these “new skills” you mention, to get jobs within industries that will be fragmented by this technological upheaval?

That is the first of many larger economic “rocks” the “techno-optimists” like yourself seem to fail to explain. Your commentary seems isolated from reality … are you making a comfortable living?

Let’s remove you from your current employment, then let you work 2-3 part time jobs (including perhaps, at Amazon) at minimum wage for 1 year … then have you report on that experience. That is where the “jobs will be” going forward, at best, IMO.

This technological advancement era (the one with the “robots” among other advancements) IS different than in the past in a key way. (I know, I know, “But THIS time it’s different…)

Former technologies only replaced “tasks” … these, in this era of advancement, are replacing the need for humans at all (albeit slowly, over the upcoming decades at an increasing and perhaps exponential rate).

The leverage gained from using automation gives companies incentives to replace human jobs in the interest of increased profits. The person replaced may or may not be able to “get the skills needed” to get a different job for income.

This has actually been a trend that was happening really slowly over the last century, but will increase in efficiency over the next 20 – 50 years.

The education system is overly expensive, and I have yet to see a list of companies actively hiring people in the “middle income jobs” who were “self-trained” and might not have a degree from secondary colleges.

“This is how progress happens” (the last line from your article) doesn’t mean that the type of progress never changes.

Change is the only constant … and that doesn’t mean all change is good or doesn’t need a critical eye.