>* By corralary I'd be willing to bet that robots increase employment rather than decrease it.* I guess that begs the question - how? The transitions you ment

>* By corralary I'd be willing to bet that robots increase employment rather than decrease it.* I guess that begs the question - how? The transitions you mentioned, as you said, eliminated a ton of jobs. This appears to be no different in the sense that computers and robots will do more both traditionally "skilled" and "unskilled" jobs alike. Perhaps the notion of what a job actually is, or how people view work. I don't know.