>1) Automation removes a bottleneck, and lets workers be more productive - often creating more work. What's not mentioned is that on average, the work created

>1) Automation removes a bottleneck, and lets workers be more productive - often creating more work. What's not mentioned is that on average, the work created will be more skilled than the work it displaces. This means that in the long term, training [enough to get a job] is harder, because more and more work will require skill. In the long run, I suspect that the biggest unskilled job group will be the type that involves interacting with people (so, management and retail/sales), which could well end up being where we ditch as many of our unskilled workers that we've made redundant, unless we can manage to remove them from the economy with e.g. UBI. And oh my god, did I just stumble across that one part of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?