>>Who's dream is it to perform a "relatively narrow set of repeated tasks" for 8 hours a day? No ones, but they also want to eat, have a home, and provide for

>>Who's dream is it to perform a "relatively narrow set of repeated tasks" for 8 hours a day? No ones, but they also want to eat, have a home, and provide for their offspring > As mentioned, take these "prime aged workers" teach them skills, and suddenly we have a spike in actually valuable labor instead of a middle class of unfulfilled office drones stuck in a stupor. What about the people that can not be taught "skills", what about when the machines take over their skills? What about ... 100 other scenarios I can come up with >the framing should be look at this amazing business opportunity to onboard high value workers, not cautionary doom. To do what, exactly? No job is safe from automation. To deny the potential for this new wave of automation to create massive poverty is to deny reality. We have ti adjust how society functions, how we look at labor, and honestly how we look at human rights. If we do not, if we hold to the same Social Structure of 40 hours a week with minimum amount of pay as possible all that will be is suffering for the majority, because even in this "utopia" where you can take 100% of the lower skilled worker and magically impart upon them more skills all you have done is flood the market with a greater supply of workers for those higher skilled jobs while no increasing the demand for them. Economics 101 tells up that results in a reduction in the price of that labor, so what was once "valuable labor" is no longer valuable.