I think we need to shift our mindset. Everyone gasps in horror when jobs get eliminated by tech - yes, that will mean that many won't have a paycheck for food

I think we need to shift our mindset. Everyone gasps in horror when jobs get eliminated by tech - yes, that will mean that many won't have a paycheck for food tomorrow - I understand the sentiment. But eliminating a job where someone sits at a station and does the same mindless thing for 8 hours is a bad thing?? The bad thing is that society is failing to provide pathways to giving that person a more meaningful and fulfilling duty. That is what we should be gasping in horror at. And no I'm not suggesting we should be trying to put an out of work cashier/factory worker/etc onto a track to be a programmer/engineer/etc. We have all sorts of problems. We have swaths of elderly folks who need the most basic care, parents who barely have time to raise their kids, a seeming lack of reward/appreciation for cultural diversity and arts... I could go on and on. There are lots of things that people doing mind numbing jobs could do instead that would probably be better for society and better for them. The unfortunate part is that our system fails to make the connection in many instances.