This is why the post-recession employment recovery in the US is complete fabrication. The jobs lost in 2008 were careers, the jobs that replaced them were gig w

This is why the post-recession employment recovery in the US is complete fabrication. The jobs lost in 2008 were careers, the jobs that replaced them were gig work like Uber. The employment figures today discount the tens of millions of NEETs and the tens of millions of people trying to scrape by on gig jobs that provide no healthcare, retirement, stability, and put them below the poverty line. Per-capita incomes are messed up because the top 1000 incomes inflate as much as the bottom hundred million deflate. > will likely impact manufacturing Robotics have been impacting manufacturing for decades. The death of office jobs you mention was another casualty of automation we already felt. Nothing about the impeding automation apocalypse is coming up ahead because its already happening. Its just the low hanging fruit went first, and the tree will keep being picked clean from bottom to top. The economy warps in response to it, in a fleeting attempt to preserve outdated ideology, by fabricating work and creating bullshit jobs out of bureaucracy and artificial complexity to keep society from falling apart. The problem is every single private enterprise resists giving people bullshit jobs to varying degrees, which creates the discontent between workers who lose income over time and employers who keep reaping larger and larger profits.