> suspect/hope that most employers do not want to see these automatable skills atrophy in their employees, for the sake of long-term efficiency, even if that me

> suspect/hope that most employers do not want to see these automatable skills atrophy in their employees, for the sake of long-term efficiency, even if that means a small reduction in short-term efficiency gains from automation. I wish you were right, but I don't think any industry is realistically trending towards thinking about long term efficiency or sustainability. Maybe it's just me, but I see the opposite, constantly. Everything is focused on the next quarter, always. Companies want massive short term gains and will trade almost anything for that. And the whole system is set up to support this behavior, because if you can squeeze enough money to retire out of a company in as short a time as possible, you can be long gone before it implodes