Automation strives towards automation. The final, troublesome result is that for most people there are no new areas to move to… as those areas were already automated away.

Auto factories that once employed 6,000 people now employ 300 due to automation. Including the people who (for now) fix the robots when they break.

One can argue that more jobs were created at robot factories… but that pales beside the fact that one robot factory now creates robots for 100 auto factories… and I doubt that the 600,000 people once employed in the auto plants are now working at the robot factory.

Or that they’re buying that many new cars, for that matter.

You (and I) have a skill that lets us write code that automates away the need to manually send emails. How many people are doing something similar throughout the industry? And what happens when AWS pushes their new service that lets a single person configure all of that with a few clicks?

How many developers are building basic websites these days… as opposed to people using Wix or Squarespace? Oh, you need a fancier e-commerce site? No problem, just add the e-commerce module and inventory modules. Need sophisticated AI-based trend analysis for sales? Yep, another module.

No one needs “unskilled” HTML website builders these days. Soon no one will need the skilled ones either.

So unless you have a PhD in applied mathematics and ML-based model generation, your days are numbered. Mine too.

Oh, well. At least I can digging ditches for… oops. Nope.

Robot.