Exactly. The human has the flexibility to do many different things even though they're inferior to the robots at any given thing. Most operations aren't at a

Exactly. The human has the flexibility to do many different things even though they're inferior to the robots at any given thing. Most operations aren't at a scale where every task involved is done at sufficient volume that having a single-purpose machine to do it is worthwhile. Rather, the machines chip away at the edges, allowing the human to more and more do what they're superior at: flexibility. It's the same thing we see with eternal claims of being able to do things without software developers--the tools chip away at the edge to a huge degree, but what they're really doing is mostly taking away the repetitive scutwork of the job, leaving us coders to do the part that takes the thinking. The building blocks I assemble these days are much bigger than when I started but the fundamental nature of the job of distilling requirements into useful directions to the computer is unchanged.