Robots did take all the jobs. We live in a world without lamplighters and knockeruppers and scribes and pinsetters and elevator operators and switchboard operat

Robots did take all the jobs. We live in a world without lamplighters and knockeruppers and scribes and pinsetters and elevator operators and switchboard operators and a whole host of other professions that we now consider comically unnecessary. Other professions like farming and steelmaking remain, but require many orders of magnitude less labor for the same amount of productivity. Still other jobs like textile and shoe production have basically disappeared from the developed world and are only still done by humans because of the extreme exploitative situations available in some developing countries. There are very few people today in professions that existed a century ago, and even these have seen the tasks they do and skills involved change dramatically in that time. Pretty much the only people doing things today directly comparable to how they were done a century ago are those doing it for artisanal or ceremonial reasons. People will continue to do things for so long as people prefer receiving money to doing nothing, but people won't be doing what we're doing now for long.