I have to admit I disagree strongly. How could you have this opinion and be in the workforce over the past 20 years? Automation isn't one day a human-looking

I have to admit I disagree strongly. How could you have this opinion and be in the workforce over the past 20 years? Automation isn't one day a human-looking robot shows up and does 100% of your job better than you did it and now you're unemployed. Automation is we got a new machine in the shop that increased throughput, and we never replaced Betsy and George when they quit. It's getting that new cashier system that is idiot-proof and has pictures to tap of dollar bills vs. a keyboard or requiring any sort of math skills. It's redesigning the bathrooms to make cleaning take 30% of the previous time using basic automation and techniques. It's a long slow reduction and dumbing down of the workforce that won't happen overnight, but has already been happening and on an accelerating pace for 20-30 years or so now. Compare the skills needed to run a short-order cooking station 30 years ago to today - it's not even comparable. We would call such a position skilled or semi-skilled this day in age, as the average kid off the street couldn't be up and running in 6 hours of training. It would take months to replace that worker with someone in-kind, where now your labor pool for such jobs is basically "anyone who can show up on-time and sober" which of course pays considerably less. I see automation as the long slow destruction of semi-skilled labor. You either are effectively a cheap very flexible human robot, or you get paid well in a highly skilled position. The middle is being hallowed out rapidly.