> Humans are more versatile, easier to train, quickly replaceable when one goes offline, and keep a much cleaner workstation. This is a biassed viewpoint. The

> Humans are more versatile, easier to train, quickly replaceable when one goes offline, and keep a much cleaner workstation. This is a biassed viewpoint. The problem is that humans do dozens of tasks. When we take one of them and give it to a machine, we view that as a new tool, and we imagine the human hasn't had its work reduced, because 19/20 of the things they were doing last month they still are. Fry machines are now automatic. So are cash registers. Many locations' burgers are auto-flipped. Those ice cream machines automate 5 different human jobs. Lots of orders are taken on machine now. Etc, etc, etc. . > Humans are more versatile, easier to train, quickly replaceable when one goes offline, and keep a much cleaner workstation. No they don't. If you made your own ice cream, you'd understand. It's just that when a machine takes over one specific job, we stop thinking of that as having been a human job, and let the human messes go out of our heads. There was a time when fast food restaurants sliced their own cheese; ground their own beef; cut and cooked their own french fries; mixed their own sodas. You don't live long enough to understand the progress of piecemeal automation.