Like all things this well written on this topic I feel like it hits the nail on the head and misses a few things because it’s an article by necessity must paint

Like all things this well written on this topic I feel like it hits the nail on the head and misses a few things because it’s an article by necessity must paint in broad strucks so let me say this: It’s completely right that automation/ robotics will accelerate the displacement of workers and cause upheaval. Certainly owning the productive fruits of this will make one very rich. What won’t happen is that these will displace those who service unmapped or poorly systemic mapped things. For instance: in the last 15 years there have been techniques to attempt to automatically curate wine. Most either fail or pivot. Why? Because chemical composition is only ine facet in the high end. Remarkably software still does not do a great job here as tastes are subtle and hard to train in a model or algorithm. It so far can only get n times better than average but never tops an expert human curator in the high end. Will it some day? Maybe. On an infinite time scale yes it will but I wouldn’t quite go dumping my high end wine skills quite yet. Which brings me to my point: automation is great for irredeemable or trainable repetitive processes but still an infant at more complex things like the example given. In turn, if you can carve out a niche that is unusually hard to model and train you may be okay. Unfortunately that’s not 90 percent of jobs I reckon. The other sure fire bet us to only deal in Veblen goods. The value there being exclusivity, which I reckon will never stop being a thing