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Its not just janitors, this happened to me in a highly technical call center.

• pasquinelli 9y ago
  that's kind of what i'm getting at. there's a presumption that the future will be for tech workers, and everyone else will have to starve or, preferably, be supported. i think that's optimistic. i think the future will be for janitors, and everyone else will have to starve or be supported. manufacturing went away, agriculture went away, mining went away, all through automation. coincidently, this corresponded to growth in the people working in tech and other intellectual labor. but it's sloppy thinking to say that automation causes growth in intellectual labor, which seems to be the presumption. automation causes whatever it automates to shrink. intellectual labor will be automated-- possibly before janitorial work.